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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- World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest.
- Thailand joins the United Nations.
- William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
- Korean War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman declares a state of emergency, after Chinese troops enter the fight in support of communist North Korea.
- Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
- A United Airlines Douglas DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation collide over Staten Island, New York and crash, killing all 128 people aboard both aircraft and 6 more on the ground.
- Vietnam War: General William Westmoreland sends U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara a request for 243,000 more men by the end of 1966.
- Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain.
- Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The surrender of the Pakistan Army brings an end to both conflicts. This is commemorated annually as Victory Day in Bangladesh, and as Vijay Diwas in India.
- The United Kingdom recognizes Bahrain’s independence. This is commemorated annually as Bahrain’s National Day.
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- Cleveland, Ohio, becomes the first major American city to default on its financial obligations since the Great Depression.
- Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States.
- Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of New York’s Gambino crime family
- Gennady Kolbin replaces Dinmukhamed Konayev as First Secretary of the Kazakh Communist Party, prompting the Jeltoqsan protests which began the next day.
- Romanian Revolution: Protests break out in Timișoara, Romania, in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés.
- U.S. Appeals Court Judge Robert Smith Vance is assassinated by a mail bomb sent by Walter Leroy Moody, Jr.
- Kazakhstan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
- Official adoption of the name of “Euro”.
- A bus falls from an elevated highway in the Philippines capital Manila killing at least 18 people with 20 injured.
- Militants belonging to Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attacked an Army Public School in the Pakistani city of Peshawar killing 145 people.
