1908 Sir David Lean - British director (The Bridge on the River Kwai)

What a surprise ending that one had.

1911 An 18 minute fire in New York's Triangle Shirtwaist factory killed 146 of the 500 employees.

This is such a tragic part of the past. How horrible for those women who couldn't open the locked doors and the others who jumped to their deaths so they wouldn't be burned alive. And to think that the fire only lasted 18 minutes.