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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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