The Korea Times
1407-Lama Deshin Shekpa visits the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing and receives the title Great Treasure Prince of Dharma 1815-Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies experiences a cataclysmic eruption, one of the most powerful in history, killing around 71,000 people and causing a global volcanic winter 1858-Big Ben, a 13.76-tonne bell, is recast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry 1972-U.S., USSR and 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons at the Biological Weapons Convention 1986-Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan 1989-Intel announces the shipment of the 486 microprocessor 1998-The Good Friday Agreement (Belfast Agreement) for Northern Ireland is signed by the British and Irish governments 2010-Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board including President Lech Kaczyński
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