Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- Eleftherios Venizelos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for the fourth time.
- Benny Goodman, and his band, performed in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City
- The Irish Republican Army (IRA) begins a bombing and sabotage campaign in England.
- Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
- Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
- Hello, Dolly! (musical) starring Carol Channing opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.
- Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets’ crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
- Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
- Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
- The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
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- First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
- The Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time).
- El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
- Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
- US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
- The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
- The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
- Romanian university lecturer and novelist Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66 to her daughter Eliza, breaking the record for the oldest birth mother in the world
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia’s new president. She becomes Africa’s first female elected head of state.
- An estimated 41 international workers are taken hostage in an attack in the town of In Aménas, Algeria.
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