Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 57 events. Showing 31 - 57.
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- World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto.
- World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma.
- World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
- General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
- Cuba recognizes Israel.
- Almost 72% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
- Japan and the United States sign the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty
- Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague’s Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest.
- China gain control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of the People’s Republic of China and Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)
- An earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India
- President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. “Tokyo Rose”).
- Snow falls in Miami. This is the only time in the history of the city that snow has fallen. It also fell in The Bahamas.
- The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW’s plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003.
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- Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
- Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
- The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
- The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written.
- Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.
- Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
- After being struck by lightning the crew are forced to ditch Bristow Flight 56C. All 18 aboard are later rescued.
- The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
- Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
- British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
- The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.
- Turkish Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper’s office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast.
- The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
- A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 soldiers and injures 38 others.
