Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 49 events. Showing 31 - 49.
- Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.
- Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team along with several of their coaches and family members.
- A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
- The decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.
- Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.
- José María Velasco Ibarra, serving as President of Ecuador for the fifth time, is overthrown by the military for the fourth time.
- The 1976 Constitution of Cuba is adopted by national referendum.
- Don Dunstan resigns as Premier of South Australia, ending a decade of sweeping social liberalisation.
- The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 workers.
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- Soviet war in Afghanistan: The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan.
- The Visegrád Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.
- Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced in Milwaukee to life in prison.
- At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people.
- Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), is arrested in Kenya.
- Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails.
- The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.
- Protests against the Iraq war take place in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between eight million to 30 million people participate, making this the largest peace demonstration in history.
- A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14.
- Renaud Lavillenie of France breaks Sergey Bubka’s world record in pole vault with a mark of 6.16 m.
