Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 49 events. Showing 31 - 49.
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- The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba over the latter’s nationalization of American assets.
- A core explosion and meltdown at the SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, kills three workers.
- In Finland’s worst civilian aviation accident an Aero Flight 311 crashes near Kvevlax, resulting in the deaths of all 25 people aboard.
- A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
- Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
- The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights comes into effect.
- Apple Computer is incorporated.
- Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.
- In Moscow, Russia, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
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- More than seven million people from the former apartheid Homelands receive South African citizenship.
- The Motorola StarTAC, the first flip phone and one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption, goes on sale.
- China announces it will spend US$27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow River valleys.
- The Mars Polar Lander is launched.
- Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians.
- The last original weekday Peanuts comic strip is published.
- Israeli forces seize the Palestinian freighter Karine A in the Red Sea, finding 50 tons of weapons.
- Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it the deadliest aviation accident in Egyptian history.
- The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.
- Boko Haram militants raze the entire town of Baga in north-east Nigeria, with as many as 2,000 people having been killed.
