Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 47 events. Showing 31 - 47.
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- Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, marries Michiko.
- One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.
- New Zealand inter-island ferry TEV Wahine founders and sinks at the mouth of Wellington Harbour.
- Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
- Ping-pong diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People’s Republic of China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a week-long visit.
- Twenty days after he is kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is murdered by communist guerrillas.
- Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu’s Art of War and Sun Bin’s lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
- Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
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- Seventy-four nations sign the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons.
- A British Vickers Vanguard turboprop aircraft crashes in a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104 people.
- Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
- The Ojhri Camp disaster: Killing more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad as a result of rockets and other munitions expelled by the blast.
- Italian ferry MS Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.
- A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.
- Northern Ireland peace deal reached (Good Friday Agreement).
- President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces he has abrogated the constitution and assume all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
- Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński and dozens of other senior officials
