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1847 Telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Bell and his father were involved in teaching deaf people to speak. Bell developed an interest in the vibrating membrane as a method of electrically transmitting sounds. His very first sentence spoken on the newly invented telephone on March 10, 1876, was to his assistant, "Mister Watson, come here, I want you." 1890 The opening of the Forth Bridge Railway line over the Firth of Forth, 9 miles west of Edinburgh Scotland, was officially opened by The Prince of Wales (later Edward Vlll). It spans a total length of 8,296 feet and connects Edinburgh with Fife; it took 7 years to complete with the loss of many lives. Although modern trains put fewer stresses on the bridge than the earlier steam trains, the bridge needs constant maintenance. A recent repaint involved the application of 230,000 m2 of paint with a total cost of £130m. “Painting the Forth Bridge” is now a colloquial expression for a never ending task. 1904 On the 1st of the month Alton Glenn Miller was born in Clarinda Iowa USA. He was to become famous not only for his arranging, composing and trombone playing but as the leader of the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Among his best known recordings are In the Mood, Moonlight Serenade, Little Brown Jug and many many more, all in the late 1930’s early 1940’s. In 1942 he headed up the USA Army Air Force Band which entertained world war ll troops, he was stationed in England in 1944 and in December of that year , on route to Paris, his plane disappeared over the English Channel, neither the plane nor the body of Glenn Miller was ever recovered.
The spill eventually covered 1,300 miles of coastline and 11,000 sq miles of ocean in which salmon, sea otters, seal and seabirds lived. Approximately 11 million US gallons of crude oil was spilt and the clean- up operation was long and difficult. Exxon was fined hundreds of millions of dollars in both criminal and civil settlements, some of the money going to the enormous bill for the clean-up. 1994 The Church of England ordained 32 women as its first female priests. In protest, 700 male clergy members and thousands of church members left the church and joined the Roman Catholic Church which does not allow women priests. 2001 The Eden Project in Cornwall UK was officially opened for the first time to the public, by June of the same year over one million people had visited the centre. Its biome domes contain plants collected from all around the world. The two largest domes emulate Mediterranean and tropical landscapes, there are also outdoor areas. Apart from plants which are exhibited in their natural surroundings, there’s sculptures, a train that takes the strain off some of the outdoor walking, and restaurants, they even have evening concerts. There are plans to open a new third biome dome that will replicate a dry tropical environment these plans are still in the making.
2011 In Japan, the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant went into meltdown after damage was caused by a tsunami; three of its six reactors were damaged releasing radioactive material into the atmosphere. Thousands of people had to be evacuated from the area and put into temporary housing. The tsunami quickly flooded low-lying rooms 1989 where emergency generators were housed, power failure meant Exxon Valdez oil tanker that was bound for Long Beach California, the reactors would over heat, which they did and caused multiple struck a reef at Prince William Sound Alaska, it was to become the hydrogen air chemical explosions to occur over the following few largest human caused environmental disaster in American history. days. There is still an on -going clean-up process at the plant.
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