The Korea Times
1290-Round Table tournament held near Winchester, England, in imitation of King Arthur, to commemorate betrothal of daughter of Edward I, and attended by the king 1862 First pasteurization test is completed by Frenchmen Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard 1902 Marie and Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive compound radium chloride 1968-British politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech 1980-Climax of the Berber Spring in Algeria sees hundreds of Berber political activists arrested 1999-Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School, Colorado 2010-The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes, killing 11 and causing the rig to sink, causing a massive oil discharge into the Gulf of Mexico and an environmental disaster
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