Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 57 events. Showing 31 - 57.
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- The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.
- France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
- The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.
- The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft is unveiled.
- Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” speech in New York City’s Riverside Church.
- Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
- Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
- A.E.K. Athens B.C. becomes the first Greek team to win the European Basketball Cup.
- Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
- The World Trade Center in New York is officially dedicated.
- A Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, dubbed the Hanoi Taxi, makes the last flight of Operation Homecoming.
- Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Vietnam War: Operation Babylift: A United States Air Force Lockheed C-5A Galaxy transporting orphans, crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff killing 172 people.
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- Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
- Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
- The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force mounts an attack on H-3 Airbase and destroys about 50 Iraqi aircraft.
- Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space.
- President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
- Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
- Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their airplane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
- The current flag of Hong Kong is adopted for post-colonial Hong Kong during the Third Session of the Seventh National People’s Congress.
- Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name Mosaic Communications Corporation.
- Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.
- The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.
- Fifteen British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President.
- Three police officers are shot and killed during a shootout in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- More than 70 people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India.
