Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 46 events. Showing 31 - 46.
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- Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
- A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
- French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
- The European Court of Justice’s ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law.
- Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
- Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
- Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
- The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.
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- Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
- Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
- Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
- Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
- The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
- Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
- Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
- A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
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