Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.
- Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
- East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
- The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team.
- Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida.
- The opening of the Humber Bridge by Queen Elizabeth II in England.
- A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.
- The national drinking age in the United States was changed from 18 to 21.
- Founding of the EUREKA Network by former head of states François Mitterrand (France) and Helmut Kohl (Germany).
- First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.
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- Holy See–Poland relations are restored.
- TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
- The Community of Portuguese Language Countries is founded.
- Papua New Guinea earthquake: A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys ten villages in Papua New Guinea killing an estimated 3,183, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless.
- A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
- Concorde is brought back in to service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
- TAM Airlines Flight 3054, an Airbus A320, crashes into a warehouse after landing too fast and missing the end of the São Paulo–Congonhas Airport runway, killing 199 people.
- Two suicide bombers detonate themselves at two separate hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia.
- Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.
- A French regional train on the Pau-Bayonne line crashes into a high-speed train near the town of Denguin, resulting in at least 25 injuries.
- At least 120 people are killed and 130 injured by a suicide bombing in Diyala Province, Iraq.
