Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 72 events. Showing 31 - 60.
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- American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
- The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
- United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
- Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
- World War II: Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
- World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
- The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
- World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance forces, ends with the defeat of the latter.
- The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
- The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin.
- William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
- Shirley Jackson’s short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
- The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.
- Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
- The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
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- Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson becomes world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American Floyd Patterson on technical knockout after two minutes and three seconds in the third round at Yankee Stadium.
- The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
- Madagascar gains its independence from France.
- U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.
- Levi Eshkol becomes the Israeli Prime Minister.
- Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
- At Plesetsk Cosmodrome nine people are killed in an explosion of a Kosmos-3M rocket.
- The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley’s chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
- Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
- The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16-year-old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she is the first victim who is not a prostitute.
- Elvis Presley performs the final concert of his life in Indianapolis.
- Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.
- Ten-Day War: The Yugoslav people’s army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
- Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup d'état.
- Attempted assassination of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa.
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