Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 46 events. Showing 31 - 46.
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- The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
- Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history.
- The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist) is founded.
- Time’s Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer.
- The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union.
- Four Armed Islamic Group hijackers seize control of Air France Flight 8969. When the plane lands at Marseille, a French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the hijackers.
- Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado.
- Start of the largest strike in South Korean history.
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- The Soufrière Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes, creating a small tsunami offshore.
- Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.
- The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage.
- A magnitude 6.6 earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam, killing tens of thousands and destroying the citadel of Arg-é Bam.
- A 9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean, killing over 230,000.
- Orange Revolution: The final run-off election in Ukraine is held under heavy international scrutiny.
- An oil pipeline in Lagos, Nigeria explodes, killing at least 260.
- China opens the world’s longest high-speed rail route, which links Beijing and Guangzhou.
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