Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 44 events. Showing 31 - 44.
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- As a result of nerve gas testing in Skull Valley, Utah, over 6,000 sheep are found dead.
- Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
- My Lai Massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
- The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
- The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
- Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the “Night Stalker”, commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.
- A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
- Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
- Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Suicide car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.
- A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.
- Five hundred thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
- Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
- Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Niš are destroyed.
- The largest meteorite (since NASA started observing the Moon in 2005) hit the Moon.
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