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On this Day: January 21st – coal mine disaster (1960), nuke near-miss (1968) and Rudd bottling it (2010)

Sixty-one years ago, on this day, January 21, 1960, 435 workers were buried alive when a mine in Coalbrook, Free State collapsed. (South Africa) 

January 21, 1960 – at least 435 coal miners killed in apartheid South Africa incident #BusinessAsUsual   #Racism   #Profiteering   #GlobalApartheid

A near catastrophic plane crash in Greenland…

January 21, 1968 – Ultima Fule on Ultima Thule

On this day, in 2010, Australian  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, was caught out having to admit that his proposed “carbon pollution reduction scheme” was dead and that he was kicking the whole climate issue into the long legislative grass.

January 21, 2010 – The flub that sank a thousand policies #auspol

Are there other climate-related events that happened on this day that you think deserve a shout out? If so, let me know.

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