The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in July 1976, when it hosted a statewide convention of the American Legion. Soon after, a pneumonia-like disease killed 29 people and sickened 182 more who had been in the hotel. The vast majority were members of the convention. The negative publicity associated with what became known as "Legionnaires' Disease" caused occupancy at the Bellevue-Stratford to plummet to 4 percent and the hotel finally closed on November 18, 1976. In 1977, Dr. Joseph McDade discovered a new bacterium, which was identified as the causative organism. It thrives in hot, damp places like the water of the cooling towers for the
Garibaldi Legion (French Foreign Legion) the 1930s and is remembered in France as le dernier Poilu, the last of the veterans. Today the Legion in Italy is an association of veterans and people who share the ideals of the Republic Garibaldi. Garibaldi Legion (French Foreign Legion) The Garibaldi Legion (official name 4 régiment de marche du 1 étranger) was a unit of the French Foreign Legion which formed the Marching Regiment of the Foreign Legion composed entirely all of Italian citizens, who fought in France in World War I against the Germans. With the outbreak of World War I in the fall of 1914, Giuseppe