Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 47 events. Showing 31 - 47.
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- The United Kingdom imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland.
- Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles.
- In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process. Since 2006, a public holiday known as Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice is held on this day.
- Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
- The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
- Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240000 oilbbl of crude oil after running aground.
- Discovery of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9.
- Jonesboro massacre: Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
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- A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
- First Computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation, performed at the University of Regensburg, Germany
- Mont Blanc Tunnel fire kills 39 people.
- Kosovo War: NATO commences aerial bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
- S&P 500 index reaches an intraday high of 1,552.87, a peak that, due to the collapse of the dot-com bubble, it will not reach again for another seven-and-a-half years.
- The Arab League votes 21–1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.
- Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
- A train overruns the buffers at Chicago O'Hare Airport station, injuring 32 people.
- Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.
