Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 50 events. Showing 31 - 50.
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- Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.
- Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey awarded the U.S. President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide.
- Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
- Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.
- California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
- Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1368 ft in the air.
- Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
- U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently.
- Several tornadoes strike the city of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada and the surrounding communities.
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- The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
- Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan’s first astronauts.
- The White House Farm murders took place near the English village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex, England.
- Lynne Cox becomes first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union
- U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
- The United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
- The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.
- The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia.
- Three gunmen kill 19 people in a church near Okene, Nigeria.
- A bombing in a market in Karachi, Pakistan, kills eleven people.
