Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 93 events. Showing 61 - 90.
- United States President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
- Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
- American Airlines Flight 1 crashes on take off in New York.
- Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe.
- Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet’s surface.
- The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
- A bomb explodes in a men’s room in the United States Capitol: the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
- President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
- The Thai province of Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani Province.
- Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
- Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
- Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
- The United States becomes a member of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.
- Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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- Prime Minister of Poland Waldemar Pawlak resigns from parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Józef Oleksy.
- Yahoo! is incorporated.
- Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
- Ottawa Treaty enters into force.
- The Constitution of Finland is rewritten.
- Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC.
- U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
- The Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800 km above the Earth on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8500 kilograms (8.5 tons).
- The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced by the euro (€).
- Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
- The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
- Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum becomes President of Iraq.
- U.S. Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of murder is unconstitutional marking a change in “national standards,”.
- English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
- Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths are at Enterprise High School (Alabama).
