A file picture dated 05 March 1999 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The fourth and last reactor still functioning at the power plant was shut down just after midnight on Thursday 01 July 1999 to allow for a major four-month overhauling of the accident-prone station. EPA PHOTO EPA FILES/Sergei SUPINSKY
In 1964, the United Republic of Tanzania is founded
Tanzania was the result of a merger between Tanganyika and Zanzibar. Julius Nyerere was its first president.
Flag of Tanzania. Shutterstock
In 1937, Guernica is bombed
The Basque city of Guernica was bombed by the German air force during the Spanish Civil War. The event has been memorialized in Pablo Picasso‘s painting Guernica.
Pablo Picasso’s Guernica
In 1933, the Gestapo is formed
The political police of Nazi Germany known as the Gestapo were created by Hermann Göring to eliminate opposition and gather Jews for deportation to the various extermination camps.
This undated photograph shows the Head of the Nazi German SS and Gestapo, Heinrich Himmler, as he inspects a German prisoner of war camp at an unknown location in the Soviet Union. (AP Photo)
In 1865, John Wilkes Booth is killed
Twelve days after assassinating US President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth was killed in Virginia farm either by a Federal soldier or by his own hand.
John Wilkes Booth (From a photograph taken in 1864). Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
In 1607, the first English settlers land in North America
The first permanent settlers landed at Cape Henry, Chesapeake Bay, later forming Jamestown.
Jamestown Settlement
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