Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 55 events. Showing 31 - 55.
- World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
- World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
- Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
- The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
- France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
- Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
- World War II: In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation starts.
- World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
- Nippon Television broadcasts Japan’s first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
- Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
- U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
- March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech
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- Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie are murdered in their Manhattan apartment, prompting the events that would lead to the passing of the Miranda Rights.
- The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, the longest floating bridge in the world, opens between Seattle and Medina, Washington, US.
- The Philadelphia race riot begins.
- Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.
- An IRA bomb explodes at the Grote Markt in Brussels.
- Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.
- Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
- An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
- Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales divorce.
- Pakistan’s National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the “Qur'an and Sunnah” the “supreme law” but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
- Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.
- An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500,000 people living in south east England and brings 60% of London’s underground rail network to a halt.
- Software Freedom Day is established and is firstly observed.
