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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- Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
- World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad.
- World War II: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy.
- World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union.
- World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces
- Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada’s largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
- Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.
- The penal colony on Devil’s Island is permanently closed.
- Ida Siekmann dies attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
- An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails.
- American Joe Walker in an X-15 test plane reaches an altitude of 107.96 km (354,200 feet).
- Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
- Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
- J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
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- Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
- The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende’s government and demands him to resign or else be unseated through force and new elections be called. The first demand is executed eighteen days later in a bloody coup d'état, commencing 17 years of military rule.
- The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FLSN) occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
- PC Brian Bishop a British police officer is shot in the head by an armed robber in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex. He dies from his injuries five days later.
- Manchester Air Disaster sees 55 people killed when a fire breaks out on a commercial aircraft at Manchester Airport.
- Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
- FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
- Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy
- Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
- Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
- Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.
- The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history. The combined run total is also Major League record.
- The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day
- Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya’s Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.
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