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28th March 1979: Worst accident in U.S. nuclear power plant history at Three Mile Island Generating Station

28th March 2021
Tagged as: Electricity, Nuclear, Pennsylvania, Radiation, Radioactivity, Science

The incident at Three Mile Island heralded a dramatic shift in public attitudes towards nuclear power and the second reactor never returned to service.

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20th April 1902: Marie and Pierre Curie prove the existence of radium

20th April 2020
Tagged as: Chemistry, Curie, Discovery, Marie Curie, Nobel Prize, Physics, Radiation, Radioactivity, Radium, Science

Marie and Pierre Curie proved the existence of the new element radium when they chemically isolated one-tenth of a gram of pure radium chloride.

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28th March 1979: Worst accident in U.S. nuclear power plant history at Three Mile Island Generating Station

20th April 1902: Marie and Pierre Curie prove the existence of radium

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HistoryPod Extra: Centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918

21st April 1967: Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of Joseph Stalin, arrives in the USA after defecting from the Soviet Union

1st February 1960: Start of the Greensboro sit-ins to protest segregation

18th August 1920: Ratification of the 19th Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees female suffrage

16th June 1884: The Switchback Railway, America’s first purpose-built roller coaster, opened at Coney Island in New York City

15th June 1215: King John agrees to Magna Carta by adding his seal

14th June 1645: The Battle of Naseby fought in the English Civil War

13th June 1944: First V-1 ‘Doodlebug’ flying bomb attack on London

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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