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On This Day: William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire... (1912)

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On December 19, 1912: William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after .mw-pa...

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