Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 48 events. Showing 31 - 48.
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- Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its very last “Big Tent” show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, due to changing economics all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas.
- USS George Washington a modified sclass- Skipjack successfully test fires the first ballistic missile while submerged.
- The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
- South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, a formerly undetected communist spy and double agent, is hunted down and killed by unknown individuals after being sentenced to death in absentia for a February 1965 coup attempt against Nguyễn Khánh.
- Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
- Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
- Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
- Mahathir Mohamad becomes Malaysia’s 4th Prime Minister.
- Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
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- The Luzon earthquake strikes in Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac, Philippines, with an intensity of 7.7.
- The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.
- Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collides with Jupiter. Impacts continue until July 22.
- John F. Kennedy Jr., piloting a Piper Saratoga aircraft, dies when his plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. His wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are also killed.
- Millennium Park, considered Chicago’s first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
- An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing eight people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant.
- Sixteen infants in Gansu Province, China, who had been fed on tainted milk powder, are diagnosed with kidney stones; in total an estimated 300,000 infants are affected.
- As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India.
- Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
