The fire that killed 491 people at the Boston night club The Coconut Grove on November 28, 1942, may have been started by a 16-year-old boy named Stanley Tomaszewski who lit a match near a palm tree while trying to replace a light bulb.
However, the fire commissioner could not prove that the boy had started it, and the blaze was officially declared “of unknown origin.”
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