9 nov 1872 anni - 1872 The Greatest Fire

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The Great Boston Fire of 1872

The conflagration began at 7:20 p.m. on November 9, 1872, in the basement of a commercial warehouse at 83-87 Summer Street. The fire was finally contained 12 hours later, after it had consumed about 65 acres (26 ha) of Boston's downtown, 776 buildings and much of the financial district, and caused $73.5 million in damage. Thirteen people died in the inferno.

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