A fire at a grade school in Chicago killed 87 children and three
nuns on December 1, 1958; five more children later died as a
result of their injuries.
The fire originated in the basement near the foot of a stairway.
The Our Lady of Angels School was operated by the Sisters
of Charity in Chicago.
The disaster led to major improvements in standards for school
design and fire safety codes.
School memorial.
Hector Vincent “Heck Harper” Flateau (1919 – 1998)
On February 23, 1954, a group of children from Arsenal Elementary School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, receive the first injections of
the new polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk.
Thanks to the vaccine, by the 21st century polio cases were reduced
by 99 percent worldwide.
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Jonas Edward Salk
(October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995)
Walt Disney’s Magazine (formerly as Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse
Club Magazine) was a magazine that was launched in late 1955
and produced by Disney Studio staff members and published by
Western Printing in New York.
Originally designed to promote The Mickey Mouse Club, the focus
shifted to Disney productions in general by the middle of the
second volume, when the name was changed. The first volume
was issued quarterly, the remaining three volumes bimonthly.
For the last volume, the physical size of the magazine was reduced
about 10%, while the number of pages increased slightly and better quality paper was used.
In 1962, Disney bought out Western Printing’s interest in all of its
Disney related items, including this magazine, which had ceased publishing several years earlier.
