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Historical Events

The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.

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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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