Today in History 10/10 (Windscale Fire)

Date: Oct 10, 1957
Location: Windscale, Seascale, Cumbria (now Sellafield)
Non-fatal injuries: Estimated 240 additional cases of thyroid cancer
Outcome: INES Level 5 (accident with wider consequences)

Cutaway diagram of Windscale reactor
wiki/Windscale_fire
(1957) Fire at England’s Windscale nuclear reactor.
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1845 | US Navy’s officer’s training school opens at Chesapeake Bay
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1845 | US Navy’s officer’s training school opens at Chesapeake Bay
Seven professors will teach 50 midshipmen in Annapolis, Maryland, as the Naval School, later known as the United States Naval Academy, begins its first term. Commodore Matthew Perry has helped plan the five-year curriculum, with the first and last year taught on land, and the middle three at sea.1911 | Chinese Revolution begins as 2,000 years of imperial rule crumbles in China
The building of railways by foreign powers in China stokes nationalistic fervor, and unfair financial gain for those same foreign powers leads to violent protests. Today’s Wuchang Uprising will start the Xinhai Revolution, the overthrow of more than 2 millennia of imperial rule.1956 | James Dean’s final film debuts posthumously ‘Giant’ premieres
The drama starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean debuts, telling the tumultuous story of a Texas ranching family. It marks Dean’s third and final big-screen role, as he had died in a car accident a year earlier after completing work on the film.
Today in History 10/10/17

Start date: Oct 10, 1911
End date: Feb 12, 1912
Xinhai Revolution in Chinese characters
wiki/Xinhai_Revolution