1986
Chernobyl catastrophe
The worst nuclear power plant accident in history occurred at Chernobyl, near Kiev, U.S.S.R.
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1607
Colonists land at Cape Henry, Va., They would found Jamestown the next month.
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1865
John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s assassin, was surrounded by federal troops in a barn in Virginia. He was shot and killed, either by the soldiers or by his own hand.
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1937
The German Luftwaffe (air force) destroyed the Spanish town of Guernica.
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1964
Tanganyika and Zanzibar joined to form Tanzania.
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1994
The first multi-racial elections were held in South Africa.
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2000
Vermont Governor Howard Dean signed the nation's first bill allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions.
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