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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.