Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 54 events. Showing 31 - 54.
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- Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar.
- Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
- The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
- The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
- Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina’s armed forces, ending an 11½ day constitutional crisis.
- My Lai Massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.
- A Los Angeles jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers.
- Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.
- Operation Barrel Roll, a covert US bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
- NASA’s Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.
- Local farmers in Lintong District, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China, discover the Terracotta Army that was buried with Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, in the third century BCE.
- The Canada Act 1982 receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.
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- The Baltimore Colts load its possessions onto fifteen Mayflower moving trucks in the early morning hours and transfer its operations to Indianapolis.
- The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War.
- Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province.
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.
- A magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes the Chamoli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.
- In reaction to the Passover massacre two days prior, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian militants, its largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.
- Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
- The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.
- Two female suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40.
- At least 36 people are killed when a 16-floor building collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
- A landslide kills 66 people in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region near Lhasa.
- The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales are performed.
