Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 62 events. Showing 31 - 60.
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- The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
- The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.
- HMS Vestal is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the Second World War
- The United States Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
- Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport
- Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.
- U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States.
- Walt Disney’s 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, England, United Kingdom.
- King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.
- Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement
- Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid.
- Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the Battle of the Samichon River, just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the Korean War.
- Following the World Bank’s refusal to fund building the Aswan Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal, sparking international condemnation.
- Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.
- Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.
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- Syncom 2, the world’s first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
- An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (now in Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead.
- The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development votes to admit Japan.
- Full independence is granted to the Maldives.
- Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
- Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo “J-Mission”, and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.
- Nicolette Milnes-Walker completes sailing non-stop single-handedly across the Atlantic, becoming the first woman to successfully do so.
- Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country’s first civil government after seven years of military rule.
- The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
- A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
- The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George Bush.
- Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA’s first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
- Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people.
- Shambo, a black cow in Wales that had been adopted by the local Hindu community, is slaughtered due to a bovine tuberculosis infection, causing widespread controversy.
- Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured in 21 bomb blasts in Ahmedabad bombing in India.
