Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 39 events. Showing 31 - 39.
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- Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the F.B.I.
- The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
- United States President Richard Nixon visits the People’s Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.
- The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
- Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108.
- The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt.
- Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
- Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
- At least 17 people are dead and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad.
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