Minor point: it's tied with the collapse of the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre as the third-deadliest. (Reply #3)

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3. Minor point: it's tied with the collapse of the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre as the third-deadliest.

Tue Sep 9, 2025, 09:06 PM

Sep 9

The Champlain Towers South collapse ties with the Knickerbocker Theatre collapse as the third-deadliest non-deliberate structural engineering failure in United States history. The deadliest is the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse and the second deadliest is the collapse of the Pemberton Mill.

That event is remembered here at DU every year.

Tue Jan 28, 2025: On the night of Saturday, January 28, 1922, the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, D.C., collapsed.

So is the Hyatt Regency.

Thu Jul 17, 2025: On this day, July 17, 1981, a walkway collapsed at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri.

And good evening.

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