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The 7.2-magnitude earthquake centered near the border city of Mexicali struck Easter Sunday afternoon and rocked all of Southern California and parts of Arizona and Nevada. According to the Tijuana Civil Protection Director Alfredo Escobedo, the powerful earthquake killed a man whose home collapsed in northern Mexico. Escobedo also said that another man was killed when he panicked as the ground shook, ran into the street and was struck by a car. According to reports, Mexicali and adjacent cities are experiencing widespread power outages and buildings are suffering from major structural damage. Escobedo said that at least 100 people were injured, most of them struck by falling objects. Mexicali felt at least 20 aftershocks, and the city is under a virtual blackout without viability to regain power for approximately 14 hours. The quake was one of the strongest to hit Southern California in decades, and high rise buildings in Los Angeles and San Diego rocked back and forth when it hit. There were reports of shattered windows, broken pipes and water main breaks in private buildings in San Diego, but there were no reports of injuries.

In 1949, American chemist Willard Libby reported the development of a new dating technique, radiocarbon (C-14) dating. However, it would be more than a decade until the scientific community, and the world as a whole would recognize the significance of this new dating technique. Despite this apparent lag in support for radiocarbon dating, the result of these technologically advanced tests would have an enormous impact on science and archaeology in the subsequent years. With radiocarbon dating, archaeologists would be able to directly determine the age of undated sites and artifacts without the complication and confusion of relying on cross-cultural comparisons with areas previously dated through other means, predominately written records, (Renfrew et al., 2006: 37). Almost forty-years later, Libby's radiocarbon dating would come under intense scrutiny with the discovery and dating of the Shroud of Turin.

Feeling jilted after six months of negotiations, German officials reacted angrily Wednesday to General Motors’ decision to keep its European business, Opel, rather than sell a majority stake to a consortium backed by Berlin, The New York Times’s Nelson D. Schwartz, David Jolly and Bill Vlasic reported.

Expressing frustration with the U-turn, the new German economics minister, Rainer Brüderle, vowed to make the Detroit automaker repay the money that had already been lent. “We will get back taxpayers’ money,” he told reporters in Berlin, deeming G.M.’s move “totally unacceptable.”

Klaus Franz, the top labor leader at the company’s headquarters in Rüsselsheim, Germany, called it “a black day.”

“The path back to General Motors is something we won’t sign on to,” he added.

Opel workers, along with the German government, had strongly backed a sale to the Canadian-Austrian auto parts company Magna and Russia’s Sberbank, believing that would protect the most jobs. G.M.’s European operations include the Opel and Vauxhall brands.