Three Mile Island accident
1979 · Event
Partial meltdown at a Pennsylvania reactor; deepens American distrust of nuclear power.
On these timelines: Science & Technology, Master, USA, Chernobyl
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- Isaac Newton (1643)
- De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543)
- Invention of the transistor (1947)
- Bell patents the telephone (1876)
- Edison's incandescent light bulb (1879)
- The Space Race (1957)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- Mendeleev's Periodic Table (1869)
Around 1979
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- Pop music: the 1970s (1970)