Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- Gediz earthquake: A 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killed 1,086 and injured 1,260.
- The US Supreme Court hands down 5–3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.
- A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island’s Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.
- The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan’s government, precipitating a general election.
- President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
- In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.
- BBC Radio 5 is closed and replaced with a new news and sport station BBC Radio 5 Live.
- Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in the Izbica massacre.
- Three children are killed when a Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train.
- In a friendly fire incident, two A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft from the United States Idaho Air National Guard’s 190th Fighter Squadron attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing British soldier Matty Hull.
- The 2005 Sumatra earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the fourth strongest earthquake since 1965.
- At least one million union members, students, and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government’s proposed First Employment Contract law.
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