Date in year · 1948 · The 1940s
On October 27, 1948, a deadly smog event begins in Donora, Pennsylvania, eventually killing 20 and sickening thousands. Régis Wargnier, John Pritchard, Jeff Baxter would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · October 27, 1948
The 1948 Donora smog, also called the Donora death fog, was an air pollution disaster that occurred in Donora, Pennsylvania, beginning on October 27, 1948, and lasting several days. S. Steel's Donora Zinc Works and its American Steel & Wire plant during an atmospheric temperature inversion.
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1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1948th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 948th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1940s decade.
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Major Pennsylvania air pollution incident
The 1948 Donora smog, also called the Donora death fog, was an air pollution disaster that occurred in Donora, Pennsylvania, beginning on October 27, 1948, and lasting several days. S. Steel's Donora Zinc Works and its American Steel & Wire plant during an atmospheric temperature inversion.
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