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Three Mile Island nuclear power plant
Three Mile Island nuclear power plant
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers
James Callaghan
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Teachers' Day in the Czech Republic; | refimprove |
| 1776 – Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza selected the site for the Presidio of San Francisco, the northernmost outpost of the Spanish Empire in the New World. | both: refimprove section |
| 1795 – Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland, a northern fief of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceased to exist and became part of the Russian Empire. | refimprove |
| 1814 – War of 1812: Off the coast of Valparaíso, Chile, two Royal Navy ships easily captured two American ones. | single source |
| First Battle of Dernancourt | TFA for 2020 |
| 1920 – An outbreak of 37 tornadoes across the Midwestern and Southern United States left more than 380 people dead. | lots of CN tags (intro & first section) |
| 1959 – After the Dalai Lama fled Tibet, China installed the Panchen Lama as the head of the government. | lead too short, neutrality issues |
| 1964 – Radio Caroline began broadcasting as a pirate radio station from a boat anchored in international waters. | refimprove sections |
| 1979 – A partial core meltdown of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, resulted in the release of an estimated 43,000 curies (1.59 PBq) of radioactive krypton to the environment. | lots of CN tags |
| 2003 – Invasion of Iraq: In a friendly fire incident, two members of the United States Air Force attacked the United Kingdom's Blues and Royals regiment, killing one soldier and injuring five. | unreferenced section |
| 2005 – The Nias–Simeulue earthquake hit the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, killing approximately 1,300 people. | needs more footnotes |
| Maxim Gorky (b. 1868) · | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 193 – Praetorian Guards assassinated Roman emperor Pertinax and sold the Imperial office in an auction to Didius Julianus.
- 1933 – After an on-board fire that may have been the first incident of airliner sabotage, the Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool broke apart in mid-air, killing fifteen people.
- 1942 – Second World War: In occupied France, British naval forces disabled the port of Saint-Nazaire.
- 1979 – British Prime Minister James Callaghan (pictured) was defeated by one vote in a motion of no confidence by the House of Commons after his government struggled to cope with widespread strikes during the "Winter of Discontent".
- 1999 – Serbian police and special forces killed about 93 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Izbica, in the Drenica region of central Kosovo.
- Born/died this day: Isabella Markham (b. 1527) · John Amos Comenius (b. 1592) · Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova (b. 1743) · James Brudenell (d. 1868) · Terence MacSwiney (b. 1879) · Ernst Lindemann (b. 1894) · Harold Agnew (b. 1921) · Sybil Irving (d. 1973) · Lady Gaga (b. 1986) · Charles Schepens (d. 2006)
Notes
- 4 Vesta appears on March 29, so 2 Pallas should not appear in the same year
- April 2, 2006 tornado outbreak appears on April 2 and Super Outbreak (1974) appears on April 3 and 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak appears on April 5, so 1920 outbreak should not appear in the same year
March 28: Serfs Emancipation Day in Tibet (1959)
Fabre Hydravion
- 1802 – German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered Pallas, the second asteroid ever identified, but then considered to be a planet.
- 1862 – American Civil War: An invasion of the New Mexico Territory by the Confederate States Army was halted by Union forces at the Battle of Glorieta Pass.
- 1910 – French aviator Henri Fabre's floatplane, the Fabre Hydravion (pictured), became the first aircraft to take off from water under its own power at the Étang de Berre near Martigues in southern France.
- 1930 – The name of Turkey's largest city was changed from Constantinople to Istanbul, with the government requesting other countries to use Turkish names for its cities.
- 2015 – A siege of a hotel in Mogadishu by Al-Shabaab militants, which began the previous day and killed at least 20 people, ended with the Somali Armed Forces recapturing the premises.
Stephen Harding (d. 1134) · Gussie Busch (b. 1899) · Eileen Crofton (b. 1919)