Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 61 events. Showing 31 - 60.
- World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”) and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.
- The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
- The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago’s Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4–2.
- A major breach of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 ft into the River Irwell.
- Spanish Civil War: Battle of Brunete: The battle begins with Spanish Republican troops going on the offensive against the Nationalists to relieve pressure on Madrid.
- Holocaust: The last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed.
- Story Bridge, a major landmark in Brisbane, as well as Australia’s longest cantilever bridge is formally opened.
- Nazi Germany launches its offensive to encircle several Soviet armies near Smolensk.
- Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the “Secret Annexe” above her father’s office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
- Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court-martial.
- The Hartford circus fire, one of America’s worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.
- The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
- Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
- John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.
- As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place.
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- The Late Late Show, the world’s longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, airs on RTÉ One for the first time.
- Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
- Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President.
- Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war.
- The Comoros declares independence from France.
- Davis Phinney becomes the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France.
- The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world’s worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.
- The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack: Fourteen bus passengers are killed when an Arab assaulted the bus driver as the bus was driving by the edge of a cliff.
- In the Bosnian War, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, Serbia begins its attack on the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, and kills more than 8000 Bosniaks, in what then- UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali called “the worst crime on European soil since the Second World War”.
- The Troubles: In response to the Drumcree dispute, five days of mass protests, riots and gun battles begin in Irish nationalist districts of Northern Ireland.
- U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted on him in his sleep the previous day by a fellow soldier, Calvin Glover, for his relationship with transgender showgirl and former Navy Corpsman Calpernia Addams.
- The 70-metre Yevpatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message (Cosmic Call 2) to five stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris (HD 95128). The messages will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, and 2049, respectively.
- The Nathu La pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.
- At least 42 people are killed in a shooting at a school in Yobe State, Nigeria.
- A Boeing 777 operating as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes at San Francisco International Airport, killing three and injuring 181 of the 307 people on board.
