![]() ![]() The show is hugely popular, and it gives a bird’s eye view into a maddening world. If you haven’t tuned into the Netflix original series, Narcos, you should be ashamed of yourself because you are really missing out. 1942: Nuclear chain reaction is demonstrated for the first time by scientists working on the Manhattan Project underneath the University of Chicago’s football stadium.ġ960: The Archbishop of Canterbury visits Pope John XXIII, breaking a 400-year- old tradition set in the 1500s by Britain’s King Henry VIII and Pope Leo X.ġ969: The Boeing 747 jumbo jet makes its debut as 191 people, most of them reporters and photographers, fly from Seattle to New York City.ġ971: Britain terminates all treaties with crucial states in Gulf, leading to the formation of the United Arab Emirates.ġ982: In the first operation of its kind, doctors at the University of Utah Medical Centre implant a permanent artificial heart into retired dentist Barney Clark, who lives 112 days with the device.ġ993: Drug lord Pablo Escobar is killed in a gunfight with security forces in Colombia, 16 months after escaping from prison.ġ995: A Singapore court sentences former trader Nick Leeson to six-and-a-half years in prison over the crash of Britain’s oldest merchant bank.Ģ001: Enron, the largest US energy-trading company, files for bankruptcy protection, the largest bankruptcy in the nation’s history.Ģ006: Fidel Castro fails to attend a military parade marking the 50th anniversary of the date he and his rebels launched their revolution, fuelling speculation the ailing Cuban leader may not return to power.Ģ008: Former Whitlam government minister Frank Crean dies aged 92.Ģ010: Swedish authorities win a court ruling in their bid to arrest the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for questioning in a rape case.Pablo Escobar was considered to be the “King of Coke.” He was one of the most notorious drug lords in all of Colombian history. ![]()
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