Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
- Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
- Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.
- Vietnam War: The North Vietnamese Army completes its capture of all parts of South Vietnamese-held Trường Sa Islands.
- A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
- Chernobyl disaster: American and European Spy Satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant
- A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 mph, killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless.
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- Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 53 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
- The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
- The Avala Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
- Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.
- Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
- Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation.dubious date=April 2015
- The Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton takes place at Westminster Abbey in London.
- A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, injures 43 people.
