Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 40 events. Showing 31 - 40.
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- First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club
- The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
- Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by “off the scale” gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
- America’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
- The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.
- Soviet probe Venera 14 landed on Venus.
- Six thousand miners in the United Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
- In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing.
- Invisible Children launches the Stop Kony campaign with the release of Kony 2012.
- At least two people are killed and six injured after a shooting in a hair salon in Bucharest, Romania.
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