Curie Discover Radium in 1902 Milestone Event
The year 1902 marks Marie and Pierre Curie isolating the radioactive element radium for the first time, a breakthrough in science. In 1946 the League of Nations officially dissolved, ending a major international organization. In 1999 a Columbine High School shooting in Littleton, Colorado, Claimed twelve students and a teacher.
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Marie
Pierre Curie
League of Nations
Columbine High School
Littleton
Colorado
Major historical events on April 21 and April 25 through history
A sweep of historical anniversaries notes key events including Sam Houston’s forces at San Jacinto in 1836, Richthofen's death in 1918, Brasilia becoming Brazil’s capital in 1960, California’s first execution in 25 years in 1992, the 1889 Oklahoma Land Rush, and the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings’ TV broadcast. It also recalls Earth Day 1970, Elian Gonzalez removal in 2000, Boston Latin School’s 1635 founding, the Army Reserve act of 1908, Columbia University protests in 1968, Sirhan Sirhan’s death penalty in 1969, Yeltsin’s 2007 death, and more, including the 1980 Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt, Hubble launch in 1990, the Suez Canal’s construction start in 1859, and the 2011 tornado outbreak.
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Texas
Sam Houston
San Jacinto
Germany
Red Baron
Baron Manfred von Richthofen
Amiens
France
Brasilia
Brazil
Robert Alton Harris
California
Oklahoma
U.S. Senate
Elian Gonzalez
Miami
Cuba
Little Havana
United States
Boston Latin School
Boston
Congress
U.S. Army Reserve
Columbia University
New York City
Sirhan Sirhan
Robert F. Kennedy
Boris Yeltsin
Soviet Union
Russia
Kremlin
Spain
Irish Republican Brotherhood
Dublin
Ireland
Iran
U.S
Kennedy Space Center
NASA
Suez Canal
Egypt
Elbe River
Francis Crick
James D. Watson
Trenton
Georgia
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Gulf of Mexico
Venice
Louisiana
Deepwater Horizon
Chandeleur Islands
Breton National Wildlife Refuge
Lousiana
Associated Press
John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
Virginia
Guernica
Chernobyl
Europe
Ukraine
Vermont
Howard Dean
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