Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 68 events. Showing 31 - 60.
- Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.
- During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg).
- World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson’s address to Congress).
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.
- The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
- First round-the-world flight commences.
- Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
- Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
- Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, “With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire,” beginning the Salt Satyagraha.
- Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
- World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).
- World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.
- World War II: The Battle of Slater’s Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.
- The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
- Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
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- Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms’ First Piano Concerto.
- Launch of Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
- The British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.
- In Richmond, Indiana’s downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.
- Newhall massacre: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
- Vietnam War: Easter Offensive: American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
- Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
- The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.
- The Swedish pop band ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Waterloo”, launching their international career.
- Student protests break out in Nepal.
- Estonian Communist Party bureau declares “fight against bourgeois TV”—meaning Finnish TV—a top priority of the propagandists of Estonian SSR
- Members of Cameroon’s Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
- The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
- Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
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