Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
- World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
- World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall.
- In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
- Duane Earl Pope robs the Farmers’ State Bank of Big Springs, Nebraska, killing three people execution-style and severely wounding a fourth. The crime later puts Pope on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list.
- Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- During Ten Cent Beer Night, inebriated Cleveland Indians fans start a riot, causing the game to be forfeited to the Texas Rangers.
- The Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights.
- Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
- Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
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- Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
- Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after the death and funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
- The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People’s Liberation Army, with at least 241 dead.
- Solidarity’s victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations.
- Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
- The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
- Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
- Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace.
- Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40.
- The concert for Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee takes place outside Buckingham Palace in London.
- An explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana, killing over 200 people.
