The Deadliest Day in Rose Parade History

Eighty years ago, during the first live radio broadcast of the Rose Parade, tragedy struck when a wooden grandstand collapsed, killing 11 people and injuring 200. In separate incidents, a woman watching the event lost her balance and plunged to her death from a two-story building, and a police officer was thrown from his horse and trampled, suffering spinal injuries. The day remains the deadliest in Rose Parade history.