Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 39 events. Showing 31 - 39.
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- The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.
- Capital punishment is abolished in Canada.
- Montreal, Canada, is hit by a series of thunderstorms causing the Montreal Flood of 1987.
- 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source operating system revolution. Linus Torvalds releases his Linux soon afterwards.
- A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
- French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations.
- In an effort to discredit U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, who had written an article critical of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Washington Post columnist Robert Novak reveals that Wilson’s wife Valerie Plame is a CIA “operative”.
- Israeli Tent Protests movement launched.
- NASA’s New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the solar system.
