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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- Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden).
- The heavy cruiser USS Houston is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed, along with HMAS Perth which lost 375 men.
- 228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of an estimated 30,000 civilians.
- Christiansborg Cross-Roads shooting in the Gold Coast, when a British police officer opens fire on a march of ex-servicemen, killing three of them and sparking major riots in Accra.
- James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April’s Nature (pub. April 2).
- The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
- A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork river. The driver and 26 children die in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.
- Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched. It failed to achieve orbit.
- Sino-American relations: The United States and People’s Republic of China sign the Shanghai Communiqué.
- In London an underground train fails to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashes into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people.
- Andalusia approves its statute of autonomy through a referendum.
- The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, with almost 106 million viewers. It still holds the record for the highest viewership of a season finale.
- The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
- Olof Palme, prime minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.
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- The first Gulf War ends.
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group’s leader David Koresh. Four BATF agents and five Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.
- Former Australian Liberal party leader John Hewson resigns from the Australian parliament almost two years after losing the Australian federal election, 1993.
- An earthquake in northern Iran is responsible for about 3,000 deaths.
- The North Hollywood shootout takes place, resulting in the injury of 19 people and the deaths of both perpetrators.
- GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way.
- First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace.
- Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo.
- The Nisqually earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale hits the Nisqually Valley and the Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia area of the U.S. state of Washington.
- Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash.
- During the religious violence in Gujarat, the 97 people killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in Gulbarg Society massacre.
- Over one million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500 km long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947
- A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.
- Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church becoming the first pope to do so since 1415.
