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Nevado del Ruiz Erupts in Colombia (1985)
When ash began to fall on the Colombian town of Armero, local authorities assured residents that it was safe to stay put, despite geologists' warnings to the contrary. It had been more than 140 years since the last serious eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz, known to residents as "the Sleeping Lion." That night, a lahar—a massive flow of mud and debris—swept down the side of the erupting volcano, destroying Armero. It was the worst natural disaster in Columbian history.

1832 First horse-drawn streetcar by John Mason debuts in New York City; fare is 12 cents and it runs on 4th Avenue between Prince and 14th Streets

1851 "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville first published by Harper and Brothers in the US

1856 American Gail Borden is issued a patent for technology related to his invention of condensed milk

1888 USC Trojans (then Methodists) play their 1st football game

1896 Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation

1889 New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins her attempt to surpass the fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around the world in under 80 days. She succeeds, finishing the trip in 72 days, 6 hours.

1908 Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light

1910 First airplane flight from deck of a ship in Norfolk, Virginia

1920 American Pro Football League's Chic Tiger Joe Guyon punts 95 yards(field was on the side of a hill evidently)

1943 Chicago Bear Sid Luckman passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Giants (56-7)

1956 Hungarian revolt put down by Soviet invasion

1964 Detroit Red Wings Gordie Howe sets NHL record 627th career goal

1968 Yale University announces it is going co-educational

1970 Marshall U football team wiped out in DC-9 air crash at Kenova, West Virginia, killing 75(RIP)

1972 Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1,000 for 1st time - 1003.16(guess that's big news)

1982 Polish Solidarity chairman Lech Wałęsa freed

1993 Don Shula becomes the coach with the most wins in NFL history

1993 Puerto Rico votes against becoming the 51st US state

1994 First public trains run through the Channel Tunnel, linking England and France under the English Channel

2012 Discovery of CFBDSIR 2149-0403, the closest rogue planet to Earth, located a mere 100 light-years away

2018 A large impact crater, 31 km wide, from an iron meteorite is identified under the Hiawatha Glacier in Greenland

2018 Archaeologists announce the discovery of the ancient Greek city of Tenea near Corinth, supposedly founded by captives from the Trojan War


2018 Jewelry that belonged to French Queen Marie Antoinette is auctioned off in Geneva after not being seen for 200 years (of course they probably found her necklace next to her head)

2022 Earliest evidence of fire used to cook by humans found in study of fish remains 780,000 years ago at Gesher Benot Ya’aqov in northern Israel

2023 World's first protected area for endangered sperm whales is set up off the coast of the Caribbean island of Dominica