Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- World War II: Operation Carthage: Royal Air Force planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also hit a school and 125 civilians are killed.
- World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of the Transdanubian Hills concludes.
- The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933.
- Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
- Apartheid: Sharpeville massacre, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
- Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
- Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
- Battle of Karameh in Jordan between the Israel Defense Forces and Fatah.
- The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Mayor of San Francisco Joseph Alioto.
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- US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
- Dallas airs its “A House Divided” episode, which leads to eight months of international speculation regarding Who shot J.R.?
- The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic.
- Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championships
- Sports Illustrated reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.
- Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
- Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
- Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
- The social media site Twitter is founded.
- Four police officers are shot and killed and a fifth is wounded in two shootings at Oakland, California.
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