Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 49 events. Showing 31 - 49.
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- American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
- Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
- Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
- An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
- A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
- The Río Negro Massacre takes place in Guatemala.
- A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people.
- Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
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- Gulf War: Two laser-guided “smart bombs” destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.
- The last original “Peanuts” comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
- An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
- The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe‘s largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star “Lucy” after The Beatles’song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”.
- Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
- Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
- A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.
- For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.
- The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
- A plane crash kills five people and injures nine others in Donetsk, Ukraine.
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