
Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 38 events. Showing 31 - 38.
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- Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the USA’s Baseball Hall of Fame.
- Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.
- The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
- Halley’s Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.
- Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.
- The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London’s Canary Wharf.
- The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.
- A 6.9 magnitude earthquake strikes southwest Colombia causing major disruption to the region and injuring at least 15 people.