Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 66 events. Showing 31 - 60.
- Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
- Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
- World War I: German troops capture Namur.
- World War I: The Battle of Cer ends as the first Allied victory in the war.
- Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65–68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
- France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality/no attack treaty.
- Resignation of the United Kingdom’s Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
- Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
- The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane.
- The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
- Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
- Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón.
- Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany’s systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war.
- World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk and US carrier USS Enterprise heavily damaged.
- World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris.
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- The treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization goes into effect.
- Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
- The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party.
- Getúlio Dornelles Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho.
- Buddhist crisis: As a result of the Xá Lợi Pagoda raids, the US State Department cables the United States Embassy, Saigon to encourage Army of the Republic of Vietnam generals to launch a coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm if he did not remove his brother Ngô Đình Nhu.
- Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them.
- Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
- Colombian drug barons declare “total war” on the Colombian government.
- Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
- Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
- Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
- Hurricane Andrew makes landfall just south of Miami as a Category 5 hurricane.
- Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank.
- Microsoft Windows 95 was released to the public in North America.
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