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December 12, 1917 At least 543 people were killed and hundreds more injured after an overloaded troop train derailed on the Culoz–Modane railway near Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne in the French Alps, making it the single worst train disaster in French history!

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The Culoz–Modane railway (sometimes called Ligne de la Maurienne) is a 135-kilometer (84 miles) long railway running from Culoz, near Chambéry, through Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to Modane in France. Together with the Italian Turin–Modane railway it is often called "Fréjus Railway" or "Mont Cenis Railway".

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Trans-Siberian is the longest train trip in the world at seven days long. It travels 10,214 km across 16 major rivers, 876 stations, and 87 cities.

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Construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad began at Vladivostok on May 19, 1891.

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The Mammoth Mine disaster or Frick Mine explosion occurred on January 27, 1891 just after 9:00 AM in the Mammoth No. 1 mine in Mount Pleasant Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Newspapers reported  that firedamp was ignited by a miner's oil lamp, resulting in the deaths of 109 men and boys. Most of the miners were not killed by the force of the explosion, but rather were suffocated by the effects of afterdamp.

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Formed from, successively, Lancaster, Northumberland, and later Bedford counties, Westmoreland County was founded on February 26, 1773, and was the first county in the colony of Pennsylvania whose entire territorial boundary was located west of the Allegheny Mountains.

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Pennsylvania is the fifth-most populous state in the United States, with over 13 million residents as of the 2020 United States census. The state is the 33rd-largest by area and has the ninth-highest population density among all states. The largest metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is the southeastern Delaware Valley, which includes and surrounds Philadelphia, the state's largest and nation's sixth-most populous city.

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Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker and advocate of religious freedom. The city served as the capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era[5][17] and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's independence following the Revolutionary War.

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Philadelphia is one of the thirteen major cities with representation in the five major sport leagues. The Flyers in the National Hockey League, The Eagles in the National Football League, The Phillies In Major league baseball, The Union in the Major League Of Soccer and the 76'ers in the National Basketball Association.

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The Flyers won Stanley Cup championships in 1974 and 1975. The Eagles won the Superbowl in 2017. The Phillies won World Series titles in 1980 and 2008. The 76er's have won 3 NBA championships in 1955, 1967, and 1983. The Philadelphia Union of Major League Soccer won the Supporter's Shield in 2020 which is an annual award given to the Major League Soccer team with the best regular season record, as determined by the MLS points system.

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 In the 1972–73 season the Philadelphia Flyers got rid of the mediocre expansion team label and instead became the intimidating "Broad Street Bullies", a nickname coined by Jack Chevalier and Pete Cafone of the Philadelphia Bulletin on January 3, 1973, after a 3–1 brawling victory over the Atlanta Flames that led Chevalier to write in his game account, "The image of the fightin' Flyers spreading gradually around the NHL, and people are dreaming up wild nicknames. They're the Mean Machine, the Bullies of Broad Street and Freddy's Philistines." Cafone wrote the accompanying headline: "Broad Street Bullies Muscle Atlanta"

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The "Broad Street Bullies" nickname originated from the location of the Philadelphia Spectrum, the indoor sports arena that opened in 1967 and was the home of the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team. The Spectrum was on Broad Street, a major arterial street in Philadelphia.

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Canada turned one hundred years old on July 1st, 1967!

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July 1, 1967 - Seaboard Air Line Railroad merges with Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to become Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, the first step to today's CSX Transportation, one of six Class 1 railroads that operate in the U.S.

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July 1st, 1967- The first colour television broadcasts in the United Kingdom began at 2:00 in the afternoon as BBC Two telecast a match from Centre Court of Wimbledon between Cliff Drysdale and Roger Taylor. "It was a Wimbledon no one has ever seen on television before", a reporter noted the next day. "The clothes of the players were whiter than white, the Centre Court an inimitable green."