Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 62 events. Showing 31 - 60.
- Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
- World War I: Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood: Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
- Tulsa race riot: Civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
- The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
- First flight of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter-bomber airplane.
- World War II: The Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
- The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
- British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing the actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that its shooting down was an attempt to kill the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
- Ion Antonescu, “Conducator” (leader) of Romania during World War II, is executed.
- Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
- New Zealand’s first official television broadcast commences at 7.30 pm from Auckland.
- Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
- The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting concludes, among other things, that the British public did not want commercial radio broadcasting.
- Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).
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- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles is released.
- Flixborough disaster: An explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
- The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
- The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
- The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
- Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
- George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
- Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
- American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
- Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother, King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya.
- Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
- The People’s Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.
- Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.
- General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
- A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.
