Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- Crown Colony of North Borneo (now Sabah) achieve a self governance.
- The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy aircraft makes its first flight.
- Garfield Sobers became the first batsman ever to hit six sixes in a single over of six consecutive balls in first-class cricket.
- After two weeks of nationwide strikes, the Polish government was forced to sign the Gdańsk Agreement, allowing for the creation of the trade union Solidarity.
- Flood in Ibadan after 12 hours of heavy downpour killed over 300 people and properties worth million destroyed.
- Anti-government demonstrations are held in 66 Polish cities to commemorate the second anniversary of the Gdańsk Agreement.
- Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
- The Soviet passenger liner SS Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.
- Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.
- Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
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- Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo.
- Russia completes removing its troops from Lithuania.
- The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
- Saddam Hussein’s troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.
- Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
- North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1, its first satellite.
- The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
- A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.
- The 2005 Al-Aaimmah bridge stampede in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
- Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
- A 7.6-magnitude earthquake strikes the Philippine province of Eastern Samar.
