Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 54 events. Showing 31 - 54.
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- The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 people and causes thousands to flee their homes.
- Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Soviet Union are established.
- Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the Tito–Stalin split.
- An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
- The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
- Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
- The supertanker SS Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
- Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
- The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
- Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
- The U.S. postal strike of 1970 begins, one of the largest wildcat strikes in U.S. history.
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- In Peru a landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar.
- Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
- At Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, 50 people are killed by an explosion of a Vostok-2M rocket on its launch pad during a fueling operation.
- First episode of Neighbours broadcast.
- Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
- In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
- In a national referendum white South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour of ending the racist policy of Apartheid.
- Bosnia’s Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.
- The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board and leading to the grounding of all An-24s.
- The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
- The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. 23 people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded.
