Originally posted by @divegeester Today in 1976 The British government passed the Drought Act to combat the continued UK drought.
(quite pertinent considering the weather here recently)
I remember dancing in my y-fronts in the back garden in the rain when it eventually fell after several parched months. I was 12. When I studied landscape archaeology 1982-1984, the kind of aerial photos that 1976's summer had made possible were a boon because they clearly showed things like deserted medieval villages.
German reunification 1990 (of course the date of the fall of the wall (9th of November) is mor in the mind of people, but that date has some negative connotations...)
At the end of a sensational trial, former football star O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the brutal 1994 double murder of his estranged wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. In the epic 252-day trial, Simpson’s “dream team” of lawyers employed creative and controversial methods to convince jurors that Simpson’s guilt had not been proved “beyond a reasonable doubt,” thus surmounting what the prosecution called a “mountain of evidence” implicating him as the murderer.
768 Charlemagne and his brother Carloman I are crowned Kings of The Franks
1000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada) reputedly becoming first European to reach North America
1446 The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea
1831 Ioannis Kapodistrias, first Head of State of modern Greece, assassinated in Nafplion
1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves an atomic program - beginning of the Manhattan project
2006 North Korea conducts its first nuclear test, with an estimated yield of between 0.4-2 kilotons
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06 Aug '18 17:15
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