Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 55 events. Showing 31 - 55.
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- World War II: Troops of Montgomery’s Eighth Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German–Italian Panzer Army.
- World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua.
- Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.
- World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign ends.
- World War II: German admiral Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
- The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
- American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the “Frisbee”.
- After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos Pérez Jiménez leaves Venezuela.
- The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10911 m in the Pacific Ocean.
- The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by opponents of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is overthrown.
- The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attack the Portuguese army stationed in Tite.
- The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
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- Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast are established.
- Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty one villages.
- North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, claiming the ship had violated its territorial waters while spying.
- United States President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
- A volcanic eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland.
- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
- Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
- Greek serial killer Antonis Daglis is sentenced to thirteen consecutive life sentences, plus 25 years for the serial slayings of three women and the attempted murder of six others.
- Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution.
- “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in FBI custody.
- Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered.
- Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10.
- A fire breaks out in a L'Isle Verte, Quebec elderly home, killing 28 people.
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