Events in history
Medicine
- March 24th 1882, German scientist Robert Koch announced in Berlin that he had discovered the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis. - North Node/Yed Prior
- May 18th 1997 President Clinton announced creation of a research center at the National Institutes of Health devoted to the goal of developing an AIDS vaccines within the next decade. - Pluto /Yed Posterior
- April 1st 1987, in his first major
speech on the AIDS epidemic, President Reagan told
doctors in Philadelphia, "We've declared AIDS public health- enemy number one." - North Node/Kelb Alrai - April 12th 1955, the Salk vaccine against polio was declared safe and effective. - NNode/Sinistra
Diseases
- Mar 2nd 1985, the government approved a screening test for AIDS that detected antibodies to the virus, allowing possibly contaminated blood to be excluded from the blood supply. - Uranus/Sabik
Narcotic and medical drugs
- May 13th 1988 The US Senate voted 83-to-6 to order the US military to enter the war against illegal drug trafficking, approving a plan to give the Navy the power to stop drug boats on the high seas and make arrests. - Uranus/Sinistra
Cloning
- Feb 23 1997 Scientists in Scotland announced they had succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named "Dolly." - Pluto/Marfik
Poisonings
- Mar 26th 1997 The bodies of 39 members of the Heaven's Gate techno-religious cult who'd committed suicide by taking poison were found inside a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California. - Pluto/Marfik
- Nov 17 1978, 912 cult members of the Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana committed suicide, by taking poison. Neptune/Sabik
- April 1st 1997 Federal authorities cautioned that thousands of schoolchildren across the nation might have been exposed to the hepatitis A virus by eating frozen strawberries imported from Mexico and processed in the US. - Pluto/Marfik
Radium
- April 20th 1902, scientists Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element radium. Uranus/Ras Alhague.
Nursing
- On May 12th, 1820, the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale, was born in Florence, Italy. - Uranus/Sinistra
- April 15th 1817, the first American school for the deaf opened in Hartford, Connecticut. - Uranus/Sabik
Health departments
- May 14th 1980, President Carter inaugurated the Department of Health and Human Services. - Neptune/Ras Alhague.
- April seventh, 1948, the World Health Organization was founded. - Jupiter/Sinistra
Biological, plutonium and nuclear
- April 10th 1972, the United States and the Soviet Union joined in Rome with 70 nations in signing an agreement banning biological warfare. - Neptune/Marfik
- April 26th, 1986, the world's worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire in the number-four reactor sent radioactivity into the atmosphere; at least 31 Soviets died immediately. - Saturn/Han
- October 15 1997 at 4:43 EDT (8:43 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Cassini spacecraft was launched. It will arrive at Saturn in 2004 to begin studying the ringed planet and its moon Titan. Cassini carries 30 kgs of Plutonium onboard. - Pluto/Yed Posterior
- Mar 21 1997 President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin in Helsinki, agreed on slashing nuclear weapons arsenals. Pluto/Marfik
- Jan 24th 1978, a nuclear-powered Soviet satellite plunged through Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated, scattering radioactive debris over parts of northern Canada. Neptune/Sabik
Events
- May eleventh, 1996, an
Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after
takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on
board. - Pluto/Yed Prior - April 16th, 1947, America's worst
harbor explosion occurred in Texas City, Texas,
when the French ship "Grandcamp" blew up; another ship, the "Highflyer," exploded
the following day. The blasts and resulting fires killed 576 people. - SNode/Yed posterior - April 26th, 1986, the world's worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire in the number-four reactor sent radioactivity into the atmosphere; at least 31 Soviets died immediately. - Saturn/Han
- April 2nd 1986, four American
passengers were killed when a bomb exploded aboard a TWA jetliner en route from Rome to
Athens, Greece. - Uranus/Ras Alhague.
Feb 6th 1904, a fire began in Baltimore that raged for about 30 hours and destroyed more than 1,500 buildings. - Uranus/Sinistra - April 5th 1986, an American soldier and U Turkish woman were killed in the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque, an incident which prompted the US air raid on Libya more than a week later. - Uranus Ras Alhague.
- Jan 24th 1978, a nuclear-powered Soviet satellite plunged through Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated, scattering radioactive debris over parts of northern Canada. - Neptune /Sabik
- May 18th 1980, the Mount St.
Helens volcano in Washington state exploded, leaving 57
people dead or missing. - Neptune/Ras Alhague. - Earthquake January 11, 1693 Italy, Sicily 60,000 deaths Saturn/Ras Alhague.
- Earthquake 1902 Dec 16 Turkestan 40.8 N 72.6 E 4,500deaths 6.4 Uranus/Ras Alhague.
- Earthquake May 22, 1927 China, near Xining 200,000 dead 8.3 Large fractures. Saturn/Marfik
- November 1, 1755 Portugal, Lisbon 70,000 dead 8.7 Great tsunami. Pluto
- April 3 1996, Theodore Kaczynski
was arrested, accused of being the Unabomber. (He
later pleaded guilty to 13 federal charges against him.) Pluto/Yed Posterior
- Mar 20th 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte entered Paris, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule. Neptune/Ras Alhague. Uranus/Han
- Feb 26th 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte
escaped from the Island of Elba to begin his second
conquest of France. Neptune/Ras Alhague. - April 22 1509, Henry the Eighth ascended the throne of England following the death of his father, Henry the Seventh. Pluto/Ras Alhague.
- Feb 24th 1983, a congressional commission released a report condemning the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War Two as a "grave injustice." - Uranus/Han
- April 17th 1975, Phnom Penh fell to Communist insurgents, the Khmer Rouge, ending Cambodia's five-year war. - NNode/Yed Prior
- Mar 21st 1985, police in Langa, South Africa, opened fire on blacks marching to mark the 25th anniversary of the Sharpeville shootings, killing at least 21 demonstrators. Uranus/Sabik
- Jan 30th 1972, 13 Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as "Bloody Sunday." Neptune/Marfik
- Martin Luther excommunicated by Diet of Worms, April 17 1521 Jupiter/Sinistra
- A court in Ireland granted the first divorce in the Roman Catholic country's history. Pluto/Marfik
- Jan 1st 1959, Fidel Castro led Cuban revolutionaries to victory over Fulgencio Batista. Saturn/Sinistra
- April 3rd 1865, Union forces occupied the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. Jupiter/Sinistra
- Hungarian Revolt began, Oct 23rd 1956 NNode and Saturn/Yed Prior
- Jan 28th 1988 A 13-day standoff in Marion, Utah, between police and a polygamist clan ended in gunfire that killed a state corrections officer and seriously wounded the group's leader, Addam Swapp. Uranus/Sinistra
- Jan 28th 1988 The Supreme Court of Canada struck down the nation's restrictive abortion law. Uranus/Sinistra
- April 11th 1980, the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission issued regulations
specifically prohibiting sexual harassment of workers by supervisors. Neptune/Ras Alhague. - Feb 10th 1988 A three-judge panel of the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco struck down the Army's ban on homosexuals. Saturn and Uranus/Sinistra
- Gay liberation chart June 28th 1969 00:10 EDT New York SNode and Jupiter/Marfik, Mars/Yed Prior
- Woody Allen, comedian. Began an affair with his adopted teenage daughter in Dec 1991. The split and court case was one of the ugliest in recent times. Mercury and Jupiter/Marfik
- President of the USA Clinton was elected in November 1992 and for a further term four years later, amid many damaging accusations. SNode/Sabik
- Mar 30 1870, the 15th amendment to the Constitution, giving black men the right to vote, was declared in effect. Saturn/Sinistra
- Jan 24 1987, about 20,000 civil rights demonstrators marched through predominantly white Forsyth County, Georgia, a week after a smaller march was disrupted by Ku Klux Klan members and supporters. Saturn/Sabik
- April 20th 1971, the Supreme Court upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools. Jupiter/Marfik, Neptune/Yed Prior