Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 54 events. Showing 31 - 54.
- Vietnam War: U.S. and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta.
- Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed in their sleep during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers.
- The United Nations Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan.
- The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi.
- The Montreux Casino in Switzerland is set ablaze by someone wielding a flare gun during a Frank Zappa concert; the incident would be noted in the Deep Purple song “Smoke on the Water”.
- “The Troubles”: The Ulster Volunteer Force bombs a Catholic-owned pub in Belfast, killing 15 civilians and wounding 17. It was the city’s highest death toll from a single incident during the conflict.
- Suriname joins the United Nations.
- Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire.
- Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjong Kupang, Johor, killing 100.
- Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco’s first female mayor. (She will serve until January 8, 1988.)
- The Hastie fire in Hull kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter Lee.
- English rock group Led Zeppelin officially disbands, following the death of drummer John Bonham on September 25.
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- South Africa grants independence to the Ciskei “homeland” (not recognized by any government outside South Africa).
- The People’s Republic of China adopts its current constitution.
- Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers kill 107–150 civilians in Mannar.
- Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers.
- Journalist Terry A. Anderson is released after seven years in captivity as a hostage in Beirut. He is the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon.
- Captain Mark Pyle pilots Clipper Goodwill, a Pan American World Airways Boeing 727-221ADV, to Miami International Airport, ending 64 years of Pan Am operations.
- Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 U.S. troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa.
- A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels.
- The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.
- Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the government to allow universal and equal suffrage.
- Six black youths assault a white teenager in Jena, Louisiana.
- Xavier Bettel becomes Luxembourg’s first openly gay Prime Minister.
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