Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 57 events. Showing 31 - 57.
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- First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, James Isbister.
- The first V-2 rocket test launch. It exploded at lift-off.
- World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted.
- Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed.
- Communist Czechoslovakia’s ministry of foreign affairs asks nuncios of Vatican to leave the country.
- The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company’s founding.
- A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
- Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena target vehicle.
- Vietnam War: In the My Lai Massacre, between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
- General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
- A Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155.
- British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons.
- Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.
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- Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and later killed by his captors.
- Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.
- Sino-Vietnamese War: The People’s Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the war.
- Demolition of the Ismaning radio transmitter, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
- William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later died in captivity.
- Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
- Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
- Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.
- The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three people are killed and more than 60 wounded. The attack was filmed by news crews.
- In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found near the Pyramid of Cheops.
- Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
- Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American woman involved with the International Solidarity Movement, is killed trying to prevent a Palestinian home from being destroyed by a bulldozer in Rafah.
- Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
- Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.
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