On April 10, 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage.
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In 1932, German President Paul Von Hindenburg was reelected in a runoff, with Adolf Hitler coming in second. In 1963, the fast-attack nuclear submarine USS Thresher sank during deep-diving tests east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in a disaster that claimed 129 lives. In 1972, the United States and the Soviet Union joined some 70 nations in signing an agreement banning biological warfare.In 1998, the Northern Ireland peace talks concluded as negotiators reached a landmark settlement to end 30 years of bitter rivalries and bloody attacks.In 2010, Polish President Lech Kaczynski , 60, was killed in a plane crash in western Russia that also claimed the lives of his wife and top Polish political, military and church officials.
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