Summary:
China's space lab, Tiangong-1, is re-entering the atmosphere after about 2 years of unresponsiveness. They are unsure of where exactly it will land, but the likeliness of getting hit by fragments is extremely low. Also they predict they it will most likely land in water, but keep in mind if they are even off by a minute- that can result in the craft furthering hundreds of miles off the hypothesized destination.
How it relates to history:
Hundreds of objects fall back to earth each year and only one person has actually been hit by some debris. It was an American women named Lottie Williams and she wasn't even injured.
Sources
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/04/01/chinese-space-station-tiangong-1-re-enters-atmosphere-largely-burns-up.html
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/01/asia/tiangong-1-china-space-lab-falls-intl/index.html
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