Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 40 events. Showing 31 - 40.
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- Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.
- American-born sumo wrestler Akebono Tarō becomes the first foreigner to be promoted to the sport’s highest rank of yokozuna.
- In a military coup Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.
- Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
- An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
- The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
- Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.
- The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.
- Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sana'a.
- Two hundred forty-two people die in a nightclub fire in the city of Santa Maria, Brazil.
