Powder House Island (also known as Dynamite Island) is an artificial
island on the lower Detroit River in southeast Michigan, directly
adjacent to the Canada–United States border. It was constructed in the
late 1880s by the Dunbar & Sullivan Company to manufacture and store
explosives during their dredging of the Livingstone Channel, in a
successful attempt to circumvent an 1880 court order forbidding the
company from storing explosives on nearby Fox Island. In 1906, twenty
short tons (18,000 kg) of the island's dynamite exploded after two men
"had been shooting with a revolver" near it. The explosion was clearly
audible from 85 mi (137 km) away. By the 1980s, it was completely
unused; by 2015, the island was owned by the Michigan Department of
Natural Resources, managed by its Wildlife Division as part of the
Pointe Mouillee State Game Area, and accessible to the public for
hunting and camping.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder_House_Island>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1614:
Pocahontas, a Native American woman, married English colonist
John Rolfe in the Colony of Virginia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas>
1902:
A spectator stand collapsed during a Scotland–England
football match at Ibrox Park, Govan, killing 25 supporters and injuring
more than 500 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902_Ibrox_disaster>
1944:
Siegfried Lederer, a Czech Jew, escaped from Auschwitz with the
aid of an SS officer who opposed the Holocaust.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Lederer%27s_escape_from_Auschwitz>
1986:
The Libyan secret service bombed a discotheque in West Berlin,
resulting in three deaths and 229 others injured.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Berlin_discotheque_bombing>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
whelm:
1. (transitive) To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To throw (something) over a thing so as to
cover it.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To ruin or destroy.
4. (intransitive) To overcome with emotion; to overwhelm.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whelm>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The world has already seen many war crimes. At different times.
On different continents. But it is time to do everything possible to
make the war crimes of the Russian military the last manifestation of
such evil on earth.
--Volodymyr Zelenskyy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy>