History Today: When one of the worst earthquakes shook China's Sichuan province, killing 87,000

Nearly 87,000 people lost their lives while hundreds of others were injured in an earthquake that hit China's Sichuan province on May 12, 2008. China launched massive relief and rescue operations, but matters turned worse when aftershocks of nearly six magnitude struck later. On this day in 1941, the first programmable and fully automatic computer, Z3, was developed by German engineer Konrad Zuse

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