Freddie Mercury




Today marks the 26th anniversary of the death of Freddie Mercury

Freddie Mercury was the lead singer and founder of the rock band Queen


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L.A - 1992

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In late April and early May 1992, Los Angeles was going through riots caused by a jury composed almost entirely of whites acquitted the four police officers who appeared on recordings taken while those same police officers appeared giving a beating to A black taxi driver named Rodney King, King ran away from the police. Thousands of people in Los Angeles, California, mainly young African-Americans and Latinos, joined in what was frequently presented as a racial and ethnic disturbance, carrying out acts of illegals such as robbery, arson and homicides. In total, between 50 and 60 people died during the riots. and there were 2000 injured.
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The Wall

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The Berlin Wall was a security wall that formed part of the inter-German border from August 13, 1961 to November 9, 1989. It is the best-known symbol of the Cold War and the division of Germany. It was a 45-kilometer wall dividing the city of Berlin in two, while another 115 kilometers surrounded its western part isolating it from the GDR. That is to say, the Wall constituted the state border between the GDR and the enclave of West Berlin. It was one of the best-known symbols of the Cold War and the separation of Germany. The exact number of people who died trying to cross the border through the wall is unknown. It is said that the balance was more than 200 people, including 33 who died as a result of the detonation of mines. The Berlin Wall fell on the night of Thursday 9 to Friday 10 November 1989, 28 years after its construction.
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Chernobyl

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The Chernobyl accident was a nuclear accident at the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin nuclear power plant (3 km from the city of Pripyat, present-day Ukraine) on Saturday, April 26, 1986. Considered, together with the nuclear accident of Fukushima I in Japan in 2011, as the most serious in the International Nuclear Accident Scale (major accident, level 7), is one of the greatest environmental disasters in history. Basically, it was experimenting with the reactor to check if the energy of the turbines could generate enough electricity for the cooling pumps in case of failure (until the diesel generators started). The amount of uranium dioxide, boron carbide, europium oxide, erbium, extruded zirconium and graphite alloys, 4 radioactive and / or toxic materials, was estimated to be 500 times greater than that released by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, directly caused the death of 31 people and forced the government of the Soviet Union to the sudden evacuation of 116,000 people, ...
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