Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 60 events. Showing 31 - 60.
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- Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world’s first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
- World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: In eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later.
- World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarine U-507.
- Argentinian labour leader José Peter declares the Federación Obrera de la Industria de la Carne dissolved.
- Wilhelmina, Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands cedes throne.
- The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
- The western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state: The Federal Republic of Germany.
- Gaj Singh is crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur.
- Nineteen days after bus workers went on strike in Singapore, rioting breaks out and seriously impacts Singapore’s bid for independence.
- Austria regains its independence as the Allied occupation following World War II ends.
- Alfonso de Portago crashes during the Mille Miglia, killing himself, his co-driver, Ed Nelson and ten spectators – five of whom were children.
- A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
- The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
- Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral, east of Lai Khe in South Vietnam on the night of 12/13 May, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides and beginning the Battle of Coral–Balmoral.
- Mayaguez incident: The Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
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- In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga). The local government asks the U.S.A., France and Belgium to restore order.
- Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a Republican campaign for political prisoner status to be granted to Provisional IRA prisoners.
- During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan María Fernández y Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the Vatican II reforms, believed that the Pope had to be killed for being an “agent of Moscow”.
- NBC debuts the current well-known peacock as seen in the NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration.
- The San Bernardino train disaster kills four people. A week later an underground gasoline pipeline explodes killing two more people.
- Four students are shot at Trisakti University, leading to widespread riots and the fall of Suharto
- Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro’s 1959 revolution.
- The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by al-Qaeda, kill 26 people.
- Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in São Paulo (Brazil), leaving at least 150 dead.
- Iranian Azeris interpret a cartoon published in an Iranian magazine as insulting, resulting in massive riots throughout the country.
- Riots in which over 50 people are killed and over 100 are injured take place in Karachi upon the arrival in town of the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
- An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people.
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of a workplace in Postville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.
- A train derailment in Philadelphia kills 8 people and injures over 200.
- A 7.3-magnitude earthquake and six major aftershocks hit Nepal, killing over 200 people.
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