Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 57 events. Showing 31 - 57.
- US Navy salvage divers raise USS F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
- The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
- Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
- The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City.
- The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
- Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.
- German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
- Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
- USS Nevada is decommissioned.
- Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
- Korean War: British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there.
- United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic ocean.
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- The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
- Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
- Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar.
- Jeffrey R. MacDonald is convicted of the 1970 murders of his then-pregnant wife and two daughters.
- The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
- Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
- Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo is killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.
- Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
- At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
- Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
- Michael Schumacher wins his 5th consecutive Formula One Drivers’ championship (and 7th overall) at the 2004 Belgian Grand Prix by finishing second to Kimi Raikkonen to beat the 47-year-old record held by Juan Manuel Fangio.
- Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing an estimated 1,836 people and causing over $108 billion in damage.
- 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: Six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.
- At least 26 miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua in Sichuan Province, China.
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