Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 60 events. Showing 31 - 60.
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- NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s N.Y. World’s Fair opening day ceremonial address.
- World War II: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.
- World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for less than 40 hours. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building.
- In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed the Hoover Dam a second time.
- In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.
- In Warner Robins, Georgia, an F4 tornado kills 18 people.
- Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia. He collapses after proclaiming “I would rather be a servant in the house of the lord than sit in the seats of the mighty.”
- Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered into force.
- K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
- The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company’s refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.
- The Church of Satan is established at the Black House in San Francisco.
- The Aldene Connection opened in Roselle Park, NJ, shutting down the CNJ’s Jersey City waterfront terminal and transferring commuters to Newark Penn Station.
- Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have resigned.
- Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Dương Văn Minh.
- Beatrix becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
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- The Iranian Embassy siege begins in London.
- The Bijon Setu massacre occurs in Calcutta.
- CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.
- Monica Seles is stabbed by Günter Parche, an obsessed fan, during a quarterfinal match of the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany
- Formula One racing driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in a crash during the qualifying session of the San Marino Grand Prix run at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari outside Imola, Italy.
- U.S. President Bill Clinton becomes the first President to visit Northern Ireland.
- Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
- U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
- Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia, are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, one of his sisters.
- Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
- Seven people are killed and another ten injured at a Queen’s Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix.
- Azerbaijan State Oil Academy shooting: Twelve people were killed (students and staff members) by an armed attacker.
- An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 103 people.
- Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicates and Willem-Alexander becomes King of the Netherlands.
- A bomb blast in Ürümqi kills three people and injures 79 others.
