Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 58 events. Showing 31 - 58.
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- The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.
- The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
- The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court’s 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
- Jorge Eliécer Gaitán’s assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia known as La violencia.
- Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100.
- Hugo Ballivián’s government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines
- The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping.
- Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States’ first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the “Mercury Seven”.
- Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa and architect of apartheid, narrowly survives an assassination attempt by a white farmer called David Pratt in Johannesburg.
- The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
- Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played.
- The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.
- The “Chicago Eight” plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
- The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.
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- The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.
- Eight people in South Korea, who are involved in People’s Revolutionary Party Incident, are hanged.
- The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.
- The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.
- The April 9 tragedy in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, an anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and hunger strikes, demanding restoration of Georgian independence is dispersed by the Soviet army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
- Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union
- A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to 30 years in prison.
- Kosovo War: The Battle of Košare begins.
- Iraq War: Baghdad falls to American forces; Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader Saddam Hussein, pulling down a grand statue of him and tearing it to pieces.
- Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor’s Guildhall.
- In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.
- A 6.1–magnitude earthquake strikes Iran killing 32 people and injuring over 850 people.
- At least 13 people are killed and another three injured after a man goes on a spree shooting in the Serbian village of Velika Ivanča.
- A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.
