Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 46 events. Showing 31 - 46.
- The George Cross is awarded “to the island fortress of Malta: Its people and defenders” by King George VI.
- The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
- Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball’s color line.
- The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
- McDonald’s restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois
- At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
- The first Ford Mustang rolls off the show room floor, two days before it is set to go on sale nationwide.
- The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
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- During the Cambodian Civil War, massacres of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
- Tokyo Disneyland opens to the public.
- The inaugural World Youth Day is held in St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City.
- The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen.
- Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans.
- Upon Hu Yaobang’s death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in China.
- Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others.
- More than 200 female students are declared missing after a mass kidnapping in Borno State, Nigeria.
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