1500-Pedro Álvares Cabral is the first European to discover Brazil, landing near Monte Pascoal and claiming it for Portugal
1692-Edward Bishop is jailed for proposing flogging as a cure for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts
1915-First military use of poison gas occurs when Germany uses chlorine gas against the Allies along the Western Front at Ypres, France in World War I
1993-Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1994-7,000 Tutsi are slaughtered by Hutus in the stadium at Kibuye, Rwanda
2006-Nepalese security forces open fire on pro-democracy protesters demonstrating against King Gyanendra, injuring hundreds. The protesters secure the restoration of parliament and a federal state
2016-Paris Agreement on climate change is signed in New York, binding 195 nations to limit the increase in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C
Source: Korea Times News
