Balloon Fest: The Most Devastating Charity Event of All Time

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Balloonfest '86 was a 1986 event in which the United Way of Cleveland in Ohio set a world record by releasing almost one-and-a-half million balloons. While the idea seemed innocent as anything, the reality is much more disastrous then you first thought...

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https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cywLAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA65&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/millions-of-balloons-cleveland_n_5206936
https://www.cleveland.com/remembers/2011/08/balloonfest_1986_the_spectacle.html
https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2011/09/twenty-five_years_ago_thousand.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20151018115119/http://www.newsnet5.com/news/news-archives/video-vault-clevelands-1986-balloonfest-the-world-record-that-went-bust

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