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Historical Events

The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 46 events. Showing 31 - 46.

  • 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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