Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 77 events. Showing 61 - 77.
- Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
- Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
- Puerto Rico police assassinate two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
- Louise Brown, the world’s first “test tube baby” is born.
- Another section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt.
- Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
- Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
- Opening ceremony of 1992 Summer Olympics
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- Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War.
- The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
- Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
- A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
- In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
- Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 passengers.
- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam became the 11th president of India.
- Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India’s first female president.
- WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
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