WHAT YEAR DID IT HAPPEN
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😛 The Oakland Athletics swept the San Francisco Giants in the 1989 World Series, but the Series was overshadowed by Mother Nature. On October 17, just before Game Three was supposed to begin at Candlestick Park, a devastating earthquake hit the Bay Area. The game was postponed, and the Series didn’t resume until ten days later. 😛
1953
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Mary Surratt Arrested for Role in Lincoln Assassination on this day in______________????
On the 17th April, police officers arrived at Mrs. Surratt’s boardinghouse. Lewis Powell was also at the house and the two of them were arrested and charged with conspiring to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. When the police searched the house they found a hidden photograph of John Wilkes Booth, the man who had assassinated Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre on 14th April.
1864….. I think
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The nuclear reactor at Chernobyl blew up on 26 April, but news of the world’s worst nuclear accident did not emerge until two days later.
Fewer than 50 people are said to have died from exposure to radiation after the accident but many others may have contracted cancer.Twenty years after the disaster an area around the plant the size of Greater London is still considered uninhabitable.
What year did this happen? 😕
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