Apollo 1 caught fire and took the lives of 3 astronauts Apollo 8 completed a nearly flawless mission and completed a safe landing in the Pacific Ocean :)
Civil War killed off slavery and declined the southern economy it also acted as a catalyst to make America into a complex industrial society of capital, technology, national organizations, and large corporations.
It was in "Berlin" Germany that the European nations met to discuss how to completely dominate Africa, since this was during the "Scramble for Africa," when many different nations were trying to capitalize on obtaining abundant natural resources.
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King James 1 was important to the survival of the Jamestown settlers because he was the first monarch to establish successful colonies in the Americas. He appointed mercantile charters to English joint stock companies to found and run settlements and he was certainly heading the Jamestown settlement. The direction for funding and managing was under his reign