Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 56 events. Showing 31 - 56.
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- Brazil leaves the League of Nations
- Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
- U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
- World War II: Paris falls under German occupation, and Allied forces retreat.
- The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting in Lithuanian loss of independence.
- A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.
- World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army abandons Operation Perch, its plan to capture the German-occupied town of Caen.
- World War II: Filipino troops of the 15th, 66th and 121st Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL liberate the captured in Ilocos Sur and start the Battle of Bessang Pass in Northern Luzon.
- Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space.
- UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
- The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
- U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words “under God” into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
- A group of Dominican exiles depart from Cuba and land in the Dominican Republic with the intent of overthrowing the totalitarian government of Rafael Trujillo. All but four are killed or executed.
- The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
- The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (“index of prohibited books”), which was originally instituted in 1557.
- Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched towards Venus.
- The People’s Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.
- Falklands War: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley conditionally surrender to British forces.
- TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Lebanese Islamist organization Hezbollah shortly after take-off from Athens, Greece.
- The 1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot occurs after the New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup from Vancouver, causing an estimated $ CAD1.1 million, leading to 200 arrests and injuries.
- Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75000 mi, about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
- A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down, killing all 49 people on board.
- A wildfire near Willow, Alaska in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough burns over 6,500 acres.
