1986 Event 20,000 mine workers protest closing of Hasselt Belgium mines 1971 Event Chilean parliament nationalizes U.S. copper mines 1971 Event Chile president Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines 1970 Event President Allende nationalizes Chilean coal mines 1970 Birthday Patrice Tardif, Thetford Mines, NHL center for the Los Angeles Kings 1924 Birthday [Irving] Lee Dorsey, New Orleans, vocalist, Working in the Coal Mines 1915 Event British battle cruisers Inflexible and Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelle 1910 Event U.S. Bureau of Mines forms 1864 Event 1st U.S. mines school opens in basement of Columbia University, New York 1835 Event Charles Darwin visits copper mines in North Chile
