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On this day in Buffalo history...

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Published August 10, 2010 at 2:03 PM EDT
An Aug. 2nd, 1978 article by Mike Brown urging children and pregnant women to move away from the Love Canal area.
Courtesy of http://library.buffalo.edu/specialcollections/lovecanal
An Aug. 2nd, 1978 article by Mike Brown urging children and pregnant women to move away from the Love Canal area.

Buffalo, NY – On August 10th, 1977, Niagara Gazette published a story by reporter Michael Brown on the illnesses of residents in the Love Canal area; Brown's stories in the following months would lead to a Pulitzer Prize award.