Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 45 events. Showing 31 - 45.
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- Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
- Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
- The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
- The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest at Bloody Sunday.
- The Groundhog Day gale hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.
- Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
- 1982 Hama massacre: the government of Syria attacks the town of Hama.
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- After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution.
- Auntie Anne’s is founded by Anne F. Beiler in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul.
- Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
- First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
- Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men’s singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.
- The worst flooding in Indonesia in 300 years begins.
- The ferry MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea near the Finschhafen District, with an estimated 300 people missing.
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