Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 42 events. Showing 31 - 42.
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- The first of the East L.A. walkouts take place at several high schools.
- Three rebels are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.
- An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
- For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
- Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
- After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
- The first United States Football League game is played.
- The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
- Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
- Ed Yielding and Joseph T. Vida set the transcontinental speed record flying a SR-71 Blackbird from Los Angeles to Virginia in 64 minutes, averaging 2,124 mph.
- The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
- A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.
