Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 49 events. Showing 31 - 49.
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- Fireside Theater debuts on television.
- A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
- Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
- Fidel Castro declares himself at war with Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
- In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister of Ceylon.
- In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E. M. S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first Chief Minister.
- Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
- Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.
- In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches a revolt against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
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- In the People’s Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen Incident.
- Three people are killed in the bombing of the La Belle discotheque in West Berlin, Germany.
- An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard including Sen. John Tower and Astronaut Sonny Carter.
- Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force.
- The Siege of Sarajevo begins when Serb paramilitaries murder peace protesters Suada Dilberović and Olga Sučić on the Vrbanja Bridge.
- American musician Kurt Cobain commits suicide.
- In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge linking Awaji Island with Honshū and costing about $3.8 billion USD, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.
- Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
- North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks.
- Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.
