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	Pre-19th Century falls 19th Century falls 20th Century falls Modern falls 20th CENTURY FALLS: CRUMLIN Fell 13th Septmber, 1902 @ 1030 hrs County Antrim, N Ireland TKW 4255g Sample: 0.75g L4 ordinary chondrite N Ireland 1902 Mount Pelée erupts in Martinique, killing 30,000 people.  Founding of the Carnegie Institution and the London School of Economics. BATH FURNACE Fell 15th November, 1902 @ 1845 hrs Kentucky, USA TKW 86kg Sample: 0.71g L6 ordinary chondrite USA 1902 (as above) SHELBURNE Fell 13th August, 1904 @ 2000 hrs Ontario, Canada TKW 18.6kg Sample: 0.05g L5 ordinary chondrite Canada 1904 First New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square, New York.  The Great Toronto Fire destroys most of downtown Toronto, but kills no-one. VIGARANO Fell 22 January, 1910 @ 2130 hrs Emilia-Romagna, Italy TKW 15kg Sample: 0.41g CV4 carbonaceous chondrite Italy 1910 Spectacular apparition of Halley's Comet leads to media tales of cyanide poisoning from the comet's tail; comet kills no-one.  Mark Twain, who had been born during the 1835 apparition, wrote in his autobiography that "I came in with Halley's Comet... and I expect to go out with it".  He did. NAKHLA Fell 28th June, 1911 @ 0900 hrs Abu Hommos, Egypt TKW 10kg Sample: 0.02g Martian nakhlite Egypt 1911 Roald Amunsden reaches the South Pole.  Ernest Rutherford discovers the atomic nucleus through scattering experiments. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity. HOLBROOK Fell 19th July, 1912 @ 1915 hrs Arizona, USA TKW 220kg Sample: 1.3g L6 ordinary chondrite USA 1912 Sinking of the RMS Titanic, with the loss of 1,494 lives.  Founding of the Royal Flying Corps (predecessor to the RAF) in UK.  Presentation of Piltdown Man - an elaborate hoax which took 40 years to unravel. MEESTER-CORNELIS Fell 2nd June, 1915 @ 0600 hrs West Java, Indonesia TKW 24.75kg Sample: 0.04g H5 ordinary chondrite Indonesia 1915 Magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 12,000 people.  Foundation of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), predecessor of NASA.  First known pre-discovery image of Pluto. British Army tests world's first prototype tank. BOGUSLAVKA Fell 18th October, 1916 @ 1147 hrs Primorsk Region, Russia TKW 256kg Sample: 0.21g IIA iron hexahedrite Russia 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland. Invention of the light switch.  UK initiates daylight saving time.  Death of Rasputin. STRATHMORE Fell 3rd December, 1917 @ 1315 hrs Perthshire, Scotland TKW 13.4kg Sample: 0.39g L6 ordinary chondrite Scotland 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.  USA purchases Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25m. First income tax introduced in Canada as a "temporary measure". Finland declares independence from Russia. Birth of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. RICHARDTON Fell 30th June, 1918 @ 2200 hrs N Dakota, USA TKW 90kg Sample: 0.11g H5 ordinary chondrite USA 1918 Bolsheviks murder Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and his famiy in Ekaterinburg. 25 million people die as a result of the Spanish Flu pandemic. SARATOV Fell 6th Septmber, 1918 @ 1500 hrs Saratov Region, Russia TKW 200kg Sample: 2.1g L4 ordinary chondrite Russia 1918 (as above) CUMBERLAND FALLS Fell 9th April, 1919 @ 1200 hrs Kentucky, USA TKW 17kg Sample: 0.025g Aubrite achondrite USA 1919 Foundation of the League of Nations.  Grand Canyon is established as a National Park.  Eruption of Kelut in Java kills 16,000.  Arthur Eddington confirms predictions of General Relativity during total solar eclipse in Principe, off the west coast of Africa. CHAVES Fell 3rd May, 1925 @ 1200 hrs Traz-os-Montes, Portugal TKW 2945g Sample: 0.05g Howardite achondrite Portugal 1925 Butler Act prohibits teaching of evolution in Tennessee.  Magnitude 6.3 earthquake destroys downtown Santa Barbara. Hitler publishes Mein Kampf. BORISKINO Fell 20th April, 1930 @ 1330 hrs Orenburg Region, Russia TKW 1342g Sample: 0.03g CM2 carbonaceous chondrite Russia 1930 Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.  Uruguay beat Argentina 4-2 in the first World Cup final.  First Mickey Mouse comic strip. KAROONDA Fell 25th November, 1930 @ 2253 hrs S Australia, Australia TKW 41.73kg Sample: 0.08g CK4 carbonaceous chondrite Australia 1930 (as above). TATAHOUINE Fell 27th June, 1931 @ [0130 hrs Foum Tatahouine, Tunisia TKW 12kg Sample: 2.5g Diogenite Tunisia 1931 The original Dracula moving starring Bela Lugosi is released.  The Empire State Building is completed.  Mao declares the Chinese Soviet Republic. KAINSAZ Fell 13th September, 1937 @ 1415 hrs Tatarskaya, Russia TKW 200kg Sample: 1.63g CO3.2 carbonaceous chondritte Russia 1937 Opening of the Golden Gate Bridge. The Bali Tiger is declared extinct. PANTAR Fell 16th June 1938 @ 2045 hrs Mindanao, Phillipines TKW 2130g Sample: 0.03g H5 ordinary chondrite Phillipines 1938 Hitler annexes the Sudetenland.  Orson Welles' radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds causes widespread panic across the United States. NORTON COUNTY Fell 18th February, 1948 @ 1656 hrs Kansas, USA TKW 1,100kg Sample: 0.2g Aubrite achondrite USA 1948 Assassination of Gandhi.  Publication of the Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper, which showed that the Big Bang would create elements hydrogen and helium in proportion to their abundance in the early universe.  Foundation of the modern state of Israel. NIKOLSKOE Fell 6th March, 1950 @ 1522 hrs Moscow Region, Russia TKW 6kg Sample: 0.4g L4 ordinary chondrite Russia 1950 Synthesis of element number 98 - Californium.  Scottish nationalists 'liberate' the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey. MONZE Fell 5th October, 1950 @ 0410 hrs Southern Province, Zambia TKW unknown Sample: 2.2g L6 ordinary chondrite Zambia 1950 (as above) ELENOVKA Fell 17th October, 1951 @ 1630 hrs Donetsk  Region, Ukraine TKW 54.64kg Sample: 0.04g L5 ordinary chondrite Ukraine 1951 UN headquarters open in New York. Remington Rand delviers the first UNIVAC 1 computer to the US Census Bureau. IBITRA Fell 13th June, 1957 @ 1715 hrs Minas Gerais, Brazil TKW 2500g Sample: 0.02g Monomict eucrite achondrite Brazil 1957 The Treaty of Rome establishes the European Economic Community.  IBM sells the first compiler for FORTRAN. Founding of the International Atomic Energy Agency.  Jodrell Bank radio telescope opens in Cheshire, UK. MILLBILLILLIE Fell October, 1960 W Australia, Australia TKW 330kg Sample: 1.0g Monomict eucrite achondrite Australia 1960 CERN particle accelerator inaugurated in Geneva. France tests its first atomic bomb. Cameroon, Togo, Mali, Somali Republic, Belgian Congo, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Chad, Central African Republic, Cyprus, Gabon, Senegal, Nigeria and Mauritania all gain independence from their former colonial powers. DJERMAIA Fell 25th February, 1961 Ndjamena, Chad TKW ~3950g Sample: micro H chondrite Chad 1961 JFK becomes 35th Preseident of the United States. Synthesis of element 103, Lawrencium. Alan Shephard becomes the first American in space aboard Mercury-Redstone 3. ZAGAMI Fell 3rd October, 1962 Katsina Province, Nigeria TKW 18kg Sample: 0.02g Martian basaltic shergottite Nigeria 1962 Cuban missile crisis.  Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro. John Glenn becomes first American to orbit the Earth in Friendship 7. Death of Marylin Monroe.  First use of the term 'personal computer' in the media (New York Times). BARWELL Fell 24th December, 1965 @ 1620 hrs Leicestershire, England TKW 44kg Sample: 2.3g L5 ordinary chondrite England 1965 Alexey Leonov leaves Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes to become the first man to walk in space. Mariner 4 flies past Mars, returning the first detailed pictures of the planet. Winston Churchill dies aged 90.  Malcolm X is assassinated in New York.  Bob Dylan 'goes electric'. SAINT-SÉVERIN Fell 27th June, 1966 @ 1540 hrs Charente, France TKW 271kg Sample: 0.24g LL6 ordinary chondrite France 1966 Soviet probe Luna 9 makes first controlled landing on the moon.  Soviet Venera 9 crashes on Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to land on the surface of another planet.  First episode of Star Trek broadcast, "The Man Trap". TUGALIN-BULIN Fell 13th February, 1967 Tugalin-Bulin, Mongolia TKW 10kg Sample: 0.02g H6 ordinary chondrite Mongolia 1967 Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White, and Roger Chaffee killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test. Surveyor 3 lands on the moon. The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.