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2000 After years of preparation for Y2K, only minor computer-related problems were reported (a problem with Hotmail, with a nuclear power plant in Japan and with apartment heating in Korea)
1997 Russia signs agreement to build a $3B nuclear power plant in China 1996 Harold William Woolhouse, plant scientist, dies at 63 1990 BASF plant in Cincinnati explodes in flames, 1 person dies 1989 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test 1988 3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant 1986 Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap 1986 Chernobyl, U.S.S.R. site of world's worst nuclear power plant disaster 1985 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel and Co plant 1984 Polygram's Hanover Germany plant produces its 10 millionth CD 1977 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes 1977 Karac Plant, son of Robert Plant, dies of respratory failure at 6 1975 Robert Plant is involved in a car crash in Rhodes 1974 Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincs kills 29 in UK 1972 1st electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating 1968 John Lennon and Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral 1966 1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France 1962 AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation 1961 1st practical sea water conversion plant - Freeport, Texas 1961 Lynne Austin, born in Plant City, Florida, playmate, Jul, 1986 1957 Shippingport Atomic Power Stn, 1st nuke plant to generate electricity 1957 1st U.S. large scale nuclear power plant opens (Shippingport Penn) 1957 Pam Tillis, born in Plant City, Florida, country singer, Melancholy Child 1957 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir Va 1955 1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced 1951 1st self-contained titanium plant opens (Henderson Nevada) 1948 Robert Plant, English rock vocalist, Led Zeppelin-Whole Lotta Love 1948 I G Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die 1946 Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building and burying 38 1945 35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia 1944 1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Philadelphia 1942 Alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus 1942 Elwood Ordnance Plant near Joliet Illinois kills 54 1941 Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita, Kansas 1941 Ammunition plant at Fort Smederovo in Belgrade explodes; kills 1,500 1940 49 die and 200 injured when Hercules Powder Co plant explodes (NJ) 1937 Police kill 10 strikers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago 1936 United Auto Workers stage 1st sit-down strike, at Fisher Body Plant 1936 1st alcohol power plant forms, Atchison, Kansas 1932 Harold William Woolhouse, plant scientist 1916 German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, New Jersey 1915 William Goyen, born in Trinity, Texas, writer, storyteller, married actress Doris Roberts, wrote The House of Breath, The Fair Sister, Wonderful Plant 1912 Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect 1896 Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation 1886 1st commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo 1886 1st AC power plant in U.S. begins commercial operation, Massachusetts 1886 1st U.S. alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, MA 1881 California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation 1861 Government Printing Office purchases 1st printing plant, Washington 1807 Michel Adanson, French biologist (Plant classes), dies at 79 1665 Rudolph J Camerarius, German botanist/physician, sexuality plant |
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