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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- Apollo 13 is launched.
- First edition of the BBC comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is broadcast, one of the longest-running British radio shows in history.
- The Apple I is created.
- London Transport’s Silver Jubilee buses are launched.
- Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
- A massive riot in Brixton, south London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
- The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
- Ron Hextall becomes the first goaltender in NHL history to score a goal in the playoffs.
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- Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
- Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.
- The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.
- The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
- Over two hundred thousand people marched in Caracas towards the Presidential Palace of Miraflores, to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chávez. 19 of the protesters are killed, and the Minister of Defense Gral. Lucas Rincon announces Hugo Chávez resignation on national TV.
- Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
- 2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.
- An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others.
- An 8.2 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia, off northern Sumatra at a depth of 16.4 km. A tsunami hits the island of Nias at Indonesia.
