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The Really Bad Small Day Almanac: September 7

1929: In Finland, 136 people die when the Kuru capsizes on Lake Nasijarvi.
1943: Fifty-five people die in a fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas.
1978: In London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by way of a ricin pellet fired from a specially designed umbrella.
2017: More than 60 people die in an earthquake centered in Chiapas, Mexico.

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