Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- People’s Park: California Governor Ronald Reagan has an impromptu student park owned by University of California at Berkeley fenced off from student anti-war protestors, sparking a riot called Bloody Thursday.
- President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army Generals.
- Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.
- Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
- In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to become President.
- Ma'alot massacre: Members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine attack and take hostages at an Israeli school; a total of 31 people are killed, including 22 schoolchildren.
- Elio de Angelis, was killed while testing the Brabham BT55 at the Paul Ricard circuit at Le Castellet.
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- The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit.
- Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Soviet Army begins to withdrawal 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.
- Édith Cresson becomes France’s first female premier.
- The United States government acknowledges the existence of the “Secret War” in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other “Secret War” veterans.
- Cloud Gate was formally dedicated in Chicago’s Millennium Park.
- California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state’s own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
- Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.
- An upsurge in violence in Iraq leaves more than 389 people dead over three days.
