These days in history March 18-19
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Started by metmike - March 18, 2019, 11:23 p.m.

Let's kill 2 birds with one stone(-:


March 18th

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_18

1953 – An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.

1971Peru: a landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar.


March 19th

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_19

2018 – The last male northern white rhinoceros, Sudan, dies, ensuring a chance of extinction for the species.

After the transport, the four rhinos were under constant watch by specialists and staff, and lived in specially constructed bomas with access to a 400×400-metre paddock area, allowing them to acclimatize to their new surroundings.[citation needed] To prevent any unnecessary injuries they might inflict on each other while interacting in their fenced area, and give their horns an opportunity to regrow to a natural shape (as their front horns had grown bent by much rubbing against enclosure bars in captivity), all the rhinos were sedated and their horns were sawn off. This also made them less vulnerable to the poaching that drove their species to near extinction, as the horn is what the poachers are after. In place of their horns, radio transmitters have been installed to allow closer monitoring of their whereabouts.[12] They are protected round-the-clock by armed guards.[13] Poachers have been selling their horns for $110,000 per kilogram($50,000 per pound).

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