Historical place archive

Goldsboro in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Goldsboro in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

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Historical events in Goldsboro

1960

23 January 1960
Nuclear Power
Dwight David Eisenhower · Nuclear

A B-52 bomber carrying two 24 megaton bombs crashes, one of the bombs, five of six interlocking safety devices fail, and a single switch prevents detonation, the explosion would have been 1,800 times more powerful than Hiroshima

Provenance

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