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The Nine-Stack Strike

Workers across nine adjoining furnace stacks stopped production at the midday siren.

Stokers, rail crews, ash haulers and instrument readers stopped together rather than bargaining as separate trades.

Production ceased for eleven hours and the union won recognition.

This entry demonstrates an event with minor importance, exact certainty and day date precision.

It shares a date with another event and uses editorial order 1 to demonstrate deterministic same-day sorting.