Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 53 events. Showing 31 - 53.
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- The Good Friday earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes Southcentral Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
- Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
- The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
- Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history.
- The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
- Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, leads to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
- The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
- A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing one police officer and injuring 21 people.
- The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí, an anti-Castro propaganda network, to Cuba.
- Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People’s Republic of China.
- Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
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- The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
- Kosovo War: Yugoslav SAM downed F-117A, the first and only kill of the stealth aircraft.
- A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one and injures 71.
- Passover massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
- Nanterre massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire at the end of a town council meeting, resulting in the deaths of eight councilors and the injury of 19 others.
- HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander-class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
- The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
- A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.
- A 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes near Taipei, Taiwan, injuring 97 people.
- Canada becomes the first country to announce its intention to withdraw from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.
- Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict.
- Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead.
