Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: One hundred twenty-six American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 Allied prisoners from the Japanese-controlled Cabanatuan POW camp.
- Mahatma Gandhi known for his non-violent freedom struggle, is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
- African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- MS Hans Hedtoft, said to be the safest ship afloat and “unsinkable” like the RMS Titanic, strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks, killing all 95 aboard.
- The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
- Ranger program: Ranger 6 is launched.
- In a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khánh overthrows General Dương Văn Minh’s military junta in South Vietnam.
- Some one million people attend former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill’s funeral, the biggest in the United Kingdom up to that point.
- Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
- The Beatles’ last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
- Carole King’s Tapestry album is released to become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide.
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- The Troubles: Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers open fire on and kill fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland.
- Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
- The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
- A Varig Boeing 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
- Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called “Elk Cloner”.
- Closure of the American embassy in Kabul, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
- Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grandmaster.
- Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
- Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
- The Kingdom of Belgium officially recognizes same-sex marriages.
- Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.
