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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- Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14.
- World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an Allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies.
- The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
- The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin.
- The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
- Soviet Union regional elections, 1955.
- The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
- Two dissident Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm.
- The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
- The Government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
- Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati.
- The American Indian Movement (AIM) occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
- The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
- The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
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- Sumgait pogrom: The Armenian community of Sumgait in Azerbaijan is targeted in a violent massacre.
- Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo riots.
- Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that “Kuwait is liberated”.
- Zakho: A terrorist explosion in a market in the city of Zakho leaves about 100 dead and 150 wounded.
- Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair’s handling of the evacuation.
- Godhra train burning: A Muslim mob torches a train returning from Ayodhya, killing 59 Hindu pilgrims.
- A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines’ worst terrorist attack kills 116.
- The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, is released.
- The Chinese Correction: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in ten years.
- An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggered a tsunami which struck Hawaii shortly after.
- A section of a nine-story apartment building in the city of Astrakhan, Russia, collapses in a natural gas explosion, killing ten people and injuring at least 12 others.
- At least 19 people are killed when a fire breaks out at an illegal market in Kolkata, India.
- Five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured in a shooting at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland.
- A gunman kills seven people then himself in a series of shootings in Tyrone, Missouri.
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