Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 59 events. Showing 31 - 59.
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- In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic rule in British India.
- Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Norrskensflamman in Luleå, Sweden.
- World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
- World War II: In London, England, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
- The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
- World War II: American and Filipino troops recapture Manila in the Philippines.
- World War II: A former Armia Krajowa unit massacres at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.
- World War II: The RAF accidentally bombs the Bezuidenhout neighbourhood in The Hague, Netherlands, killing 511 people.
- Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records “Rocket 88”, often cited as “the first rock and roll record”, at Sam Phillips’ recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
- A Canadian Pacific Air Lines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
- Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
- Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
- Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.
- Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
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- The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
- Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
- A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
- An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
- In concurrent referenda, 74% of the population of Latvia votes for independence from the Soviet Union, and 83% in Estonia.
- United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on approach into Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing 25.
- The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
- Mayerthorpe tragedy: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. It is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
- Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
- Margaret Wilson is elected as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, beginning a period lasting until August 23, 2006 where all the highest political offices (including Elizabeth II as Head of State), were occupied by women, making New Zealand the first country for this to occur.
- The Historical Archive of the City of Cologne collapses.
- Two trains crash in the small Polish town of Szczekociny near Zawiercie, with 16 people killed and up to 58 people injured.
- A bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 45 people and injured 180 others in a predominately Shia Muslim area.
- The trial of Oscar Pistorius begins in Pretoria.
- Slovenia legalizes same-sex marriage.
