Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 47 events. Showing 31 - 47.
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- The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
- M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
- Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
- In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
- A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency’s history.
- Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran.
- A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
- Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and ties all-time record low temperature at −26 °F (−32.2 °C)
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- En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
- After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
- An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
- Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.
- The Bengali Hindus declare the independence of the Republic of Bangabhumi from Bangladesh.
- The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
- Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
- A stampede occurs in the PhilSports Arena near Manila, killing 71 people.
- A TransAsia Airways aircraft with 58 people on board, en route from the Taiwanese capital Taipei to Kinmen, crashes into the Keelung River just after take-off, killing at least 31 people.
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