Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 51 events. Showing 31 - 51.
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- Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột.
- Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
- Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
- The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
- Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon’s visit to the People’s Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
- The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.
- Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
- Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
- Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3.
- The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
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- Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
- Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
- The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
- In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.
- Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
- At least six men stage Britain’s biggest robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
- New Zealand’s second deadliest earthquake strikes Christchurch, killing 185 people.
- Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests.
- A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.
- President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328-0, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion.
- A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, killing 70 people.
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