1500 Pedro Álvares Cabral is the first european to discover Brazil, landing near Monte Pascoal, claims it for Portugal 1915 1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I 1993 Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Washington, D.C. 1994 7,000 Tutsi slaughtered by Hutus in the stadium at Kibuye, Rwanda 2006 243 people are injured in pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces open fire on protesters against King Gyanendra. 2016 Paris Agreement on climate change signed in New York binding 195 nations to an increase in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C | 
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