Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 58 events. Showing 31 - 58.
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- A fire breaks out at St. Joseph’s Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, killing 36 people (35 of whom are children).
- Greek Resistance: The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth is founded is Greece.
- The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia.
- World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a U.S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.
- World War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free the captives of the Los Baños internment camp.
- World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.
- World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.
- World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers.
- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded.
- The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
- First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
- Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world F1 champion Juan Manuel Fangio.
- In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin al-Hafiz, also a Baathist.
- The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
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- Iran hostage crisis: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran’s parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
- In Spain, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
- The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
- Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
- Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the war.
- In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
- In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42.
- Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
- An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.
- The controversial French law on colonialism is passed, requiring teachers to teach the “positive values of colonialism”. After public outcry, it is repealed at the beginning of 2006.
- A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 22. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents.
- A U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber crashes on Guam. It is the first operational loss of a B-2.
- Unknown criminals pour more than 2.5 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro, in northern Italy, sparking an environmental disaster.
- A series of attacks across Iraq leave at least 83 killed and more than 250 injured.
