Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 43 events. Showing 31 - 43.
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- President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.
- The Central Hotel Fire occurs in Bundoran, Ireland.
- The “8888 Uprising” occurs in Burma.
- Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
- Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
- The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
- Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
- An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
- A EuroCity express train en route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing eight people and injuring 64 others.
- Official ceremony of 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Bird’s Nest.
- 2010 China floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.
- A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people.
- 8 people are killed in a shooting in Houston, Texas.
