Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 57 events. Showing 31 - 57.
- Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom gives Royal Assent to an Act creating Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.
- Boxer Rebellion: The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
- Future Soviet leader Joseph Stalin is exiled to Siberia for three years.
- Great Train Wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
- Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
- The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution.
- The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
- World War II: Operation Husky: Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily.
- World War II: Battle of Normandy: British and Canadian forces capture Caen, France.
- World War II: Battle of Saipan: American forces take Saipan in the Mariana Islands.
- World War II: Battle of Tali-Ihantala: Finland wins the Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in northern Europe. The Red Army withdraws its troops from Ihantala and digs into a defensive position, thus ending the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive.
- The Russell–Einstein Manifesto is released by Bertrand Russell in London, England, United Kingdom.
- Lituya Bay is hit by a megatsunami. The wave is recorded at 30 to 91 meters high, the largest in recorded history.
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- Turkish voters approve the Turkish Constitution of 1961 in a referendum.
- The Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test is conducted by the United States.
- Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans exhibition opens at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.
- The Troubles: In Belfast, British Army snipers shoot five civilians dead in the Springhill Massacre.
- A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by the famed “Nazi hunters” Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility.
- Donkey Kong, a video game created by Nintendo, is released. The game marks the debut of Nintendo’s future mascot, Mario.
- Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground.
- The Parliament of New Zealand passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.
- The Parliament of Canada passes the Nunavut Act leading to the 1999 creation of Nunavut, dividing the Northwest Territories into arctic (Inuit) and sub-arctic (Dene) lands based on a plebiscite.
- The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees.
- Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran.
- At least 122 people are killed after a Sibir Airlines Airbus A310 passenger jet, carrying 200 passengers veers off the runway while landing in wet conditions at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia.
- South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan.
- A gunman kills six people including four children, in Spring, Texas.
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