Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 52 events. Showing 31 - 52.
- Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
- The Roswell incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.
- The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.
- Ernesto “Che” Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
- Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, “That’s All Right.”
- Fritz Moravec and two other Austrian mountaineers make the first ascent of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
- U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
- Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
- Buddhist crisis: The police of Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of President Ngô Đình Diệm, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest.
- The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom
- Institution of sharia in Iran.
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- During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.
- U.S. President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
- Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17
- Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
- NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.
- A series of four explosions occurs on London’s transport system killing 56 people including four suicide bombers and injuring over 700 others.
- The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world.
- At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.
- A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.
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