Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 63 events. Showing 31 - 60.
- In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany.
- A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect.
- The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People’s Republic.
- Former President of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.
- The Hollywood Bowl opens.
- Eric Liddell won the gold medal in 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favoured distance, on the Sunday
- Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scores a world record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a Test match against England.
- Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off.
- The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
- World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.
- Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak.
- World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily – German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
- The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
- Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
- Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismai'li worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.
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- France legislates for the independence of Dahomey (later Benin), Upper Volta (later Burkina) and Niger.
- Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States.
- First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
- Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
- Copper mines in Chile are nationalized.
- The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
- Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris, France on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on board. In response, the FAA bans smoking on flights.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
- Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
- America’s first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
- Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
- Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 crashes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia killing all 261 passengers and crew onboard
- The Srebrenica massacre is carried out.
- Mumbai train bombings: Two hundred nine people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
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