Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 42 events. Showing 31 - 42.
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- Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
- The People’s Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Mujibnagor.
- George Lucas begins writing the treatment for The Star Wars.
- The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
- Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d'état in Afghanistan.
- Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
- Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People’s Bureau (Embassy) in London during a small demonstration outside the embassy. Ten others are wounded. The events lead to an 11-day siege of the building.
- The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years’ War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends.
- Nezar Hindawi’s attempt to detonate a bomb aboard an El Al flight from London to Tel Aviv is thwarted.
- A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, killing 11 people and injuring 70.
- An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.
- NASA’s Kepler confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.
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