Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 60 events. Showing 31 - 60.
- The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
- The film King Kong opens at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.
- The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
- Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII.
- World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joins the Axis Pact.
- World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea: United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
- Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
- Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
- The first automatic street light is installed in New Milford, Connecticut.
- Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in favor of his father, Norodom Suramarit.
- Morocco gains its independence from France.
- In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'état.
- Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
- The US and South Vietnamese Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
- In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.
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- Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.
- Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
- The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
- Libya becomes the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya as the General People’s Congress adopted the “Declaration of the Establishment of the People’s Authority”.
- Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
- Compact discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had previously been available only in Japan.
- Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
- Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
- Battle at Rumaila oil field brings an end to the 1991 Gulf War.
- Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan join the United Nations.
- Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark.
- Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter’s moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
- U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, (ending on March 19 after killing 500 Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, with 11 Western troop fatalities).
- War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.
- A tornado outbreak occurred over a large section of the Southern United States and into the Ohio Valley region, resulting in 40 tornado-related fatalities.
