Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 47 events. Showing 31 - 47.
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- The Egyptian Revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
- A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.
- Pierre Mendès France becomes Prime Minister of France.
- Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
- President Richard Nixon declares that illegal drugs are “public enemy number one”, which becomes popularized as the “War on Drugs”.
- Staines air disaster: One hundred eighteen are killed when a BEA H.S. Trident crashes two minutes after take off from London Heathrow Airport.
- SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
- The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight.
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- The Treaty of Basseterre is signed, creating the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
- Italian banker Roberto Calvi’s body is discovered hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England.
- Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
- Mona Mahmudnizhad together with nine other Bahá'í women, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran because of her Bahá'í Faith.
- A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984–85 UK miners’ strike.
- The Troubles: Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) attack a crowded pub with assault rifles in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland. Six Catholic civilians are killed and five wounded. It was crowded with people watching the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
- The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.
- The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire happened in Charleston, South Carolina killing nine firefighters.
- The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
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