Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 59 events. Showing 31 - 59.
- The London International Surrealist Exhibition opens.
- Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
- Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
- World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
- Free French Forces retreat from Bir Hakeim after having successfully delayed the Axis advance.
- USS Missouri, the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
- Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.
- Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamils in the Eastern Province. The total number of deaths is reportedly 150.
- Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
- American Civil Rights Movement: Governor of Alabama George Wallace defiantly stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school. Later in the day, accompanied by federalized National Guard troops, they are able to register.
- Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
- John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that would revolutionize American society. Proposing equal access to public facilities, end segregation in education and guarantee federal protection for voting rights.
- World War II veteran Walter Seifert runs amok in an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.
- Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens distinguishing cells of different lineages, introducing the concept of cell surface antigens that could differentiate different cell types.
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- After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army Generals, becoming the first females to do so.
- The U.S. Government forcibly removes the last holdouts to the Native American Occupation of Alcatraz, ending 19 months of control.
- The Eltham Well Hall rail crash, caused by an intoxicated train driver, kills six people and injures 126.
- Altaf Hussain founds the students’ political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.
- A Richter scale 6.9 magnitude earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000.
- The Sentosa Musical Fountain was officially opened as part of the second phase of construction on the island of Sentosa, Singapore.
- Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black Parliamentarians in Great Britain.
- Compaq Computer pays US$9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.
- Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
- Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
- Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.
- Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people.
- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada’s First Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children are isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century.
- More than 80 people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.
- Shenzhou 10, China’s fifth manned spaceflight mission and the second and final one to the Tiangong-1 space laboratory, is launched with 3 taikonauts on a 15-day mission.
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