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Babel & Babelfish
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Aerial view of the Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill
- 856 – An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.9 struck the eastern Alborz mountains in Persia, causing an estimated 200,000 deaths.
- 1948 – Chaired by Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, the Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia was established to counter Dutch attempts to re-assert colonial control.
- 1988 – Brazilian unionist and environmental activist Chico Mendes was murdered at his home in Xapuri.
- 2008 – A dike ruptured at a waste containment area for a coal-fired power plant in Kingston, Tennessee, releasing 1.1 billion gallons (4.2 million m3) of coal fly ash slurry (aftermath pictured) in the largest industrial spill in US history.
- Carl Friedrich Abel (b. 1723)
- William Hyde Wollaston (d. 1828)
- Meghan Trainor (b. 1993)
- Dina Belenkaya (b. 1993)
More anniversaries:
Did you know?
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René Vallon
- ... that René Vallon (pictured) achieved the first aeroplane flight, and was the first aeroplane-related death, in China?
- ... that the creator of The Americans drew inspiration for the show from his time as a CIA officer and a 2010 Russian spy scandal?
- ... that Tjeerd van Andel was surprised to find heaps of giant clam shells around hot springs on his first dive to the Pacific ocean floor?
- ... that art historians believe that Ellen Thesleff's self-portrait may have been drawn in a trance-like state?
- ... that Charles Herman Allen, university administrator and American Civil War captain, opened the University of Wisconsin to female enrollment in 1863?
- ... that during World War I the organ of evacuated Polish railway workers in Moscow denounced the trade unions of the Warsaw–Vienna railway as "separatists"?
- ... that the Mingxing Film Company released more than 150 films in 16 years, but most are now lost?
- ... that St. Gregory the Great Seminary was founded in a former juvenile mental hospital?
- ... that Ritsuko Taho once had her students at Harvard University slaughter a chicken and turn its bones into a sculpture?