Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 45 events. Showing 31 - 45.
- Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had “gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily.”
- Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
- The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched.
- The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as the first President.
- Soyuz 10 docks with Salyut 1.
- Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.
- STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
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- Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
- An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
- In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.
- The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
- Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
- Snuppy becomes world’s first cloned dog.
- A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others.
- Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China’s Xinjiang results in death of 21 people.
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