Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 63 events. Showing 31 - 60.
- Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
- World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
- World War II: Tunisia Campaign – General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim’s Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
- World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.
- World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.
- World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by an American squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet’s Vistula–Oder Offensive.
- World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans.
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations.
- The Bank of England is nationalized.
- The Knesset (Israeli parliament) convenes for the first time.
- The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
- Chinese Civil War: The National Revolutionary Army instigates the unsuccessful Battle of Tianquan against the People’s Liberation Army.
- The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union begins in Moscow. On the last night of the meeting, Premier Nikita Khrushchev condemns Joseph Stalin’s crimes in a secret speech.
- Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
- First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
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- Australian currency is decimalised.
- The iconic live album Live at Leeds by The Who is recorded.
- In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
- Stardust fire: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people
- United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud.
- Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.
- Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.
- Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in Bangalore, India.
- The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth later become famous as Pale Blue Dot.
- An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which kills 120.
- The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
- In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others.
- Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafic Hariri is killed, along with 21 others, when explosives, equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT, are detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut.
- Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines’ Makati financial district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City.
- YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.
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