Ab Practice Timeline By abbienormal Nov 8, 1895 X Rays Discovered On this day in history, all of our careers were born Mar 1, 1896 Radioactivity Discovered by Henri Bequerel 1972 CT Scanner First CT Scanner Apr 26, 1986 Chernobyl Accident Number 4 reactor exploded during a safety test Mar 11, 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Accident Meltdown and explosions following 9.0 earthquake