Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
Waves cripple Fukushima: worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl
On 11 March 2011 Japan's strongest recorded earthquake, magnitude 9.0–9.1, unleashed tsunamis up to 40 m high; about 18,000 people died or went missing. The wave crippled the Fukushima Daiichi plant, causing the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 2008 Global financial crisis — 3 years earlier
Europe
- 1989 Invention of the World Wide Web — 22 years earlier
- 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall — 22 years earlier
- 1992 Maastricht Treaty — 19 years earlier
- 2002 Euro notes and coins — 9 years earlier
- 2012 Discovery of the Higgs boson — 1 year later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1986 Chernobyl disaster — 25 years earlier
- 1989 Revolutions of 1989 — 22 years earlier
- 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union — 20 years earlier
Middle East
- 1990–1991 Gulf War — 21 years earlier
Africa
- 1994 End of apartheid in South Africa — 17 years earlier
Americas
- 1990 Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope — 21 years earlier
- 2001 September 11 attacks — 10 years earlier
- 2003 Human genome sequenced — 8 years earlier
- 2007 Apple unveils the iPhone — 4 years earlier
Oceania
- 1992 The Mabo decision — 19 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Nelson Mandela (aged 93)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 81)
- Jimmy Carter (aged 87)
- Fidel Castro (aged 85)
- Elizabeth II (aged 85)
- Gabriel García Márquez (aged 84)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (aged 80)
- Pelé (aged 71)
- George H. W. Bush (aged 87)
- Chinua Achebe (aged 81)