Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 40 events. Showing 31 - 40.
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- Kim Il-sung, already Prime Minister of North Korea and First Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, becomes the first President of North Korea.
- The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.
- With the crew investigating a problem with the landing gear, United Airlines Flight 173 runs out of fuel and crashes in Portland, Oregon, killing ten. As a result, United Airlines instituted the industry’s first crew resource management program.
- A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.
- U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
- War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.
- Forty-three people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura.
- Arab Spring: Popular protests begin in Algeria against the government.
- Roboski airstrike: Turkish warplanes bomb 34 Kurds of Turkish nationality in the district of Uludere.
- Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Karimata Strait en route from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people aboard.
