Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 45 events. Showing 31 - 45.
Is your birthday coming up? 🎉 Discover fresh ideas, unique songs, and fun facts to make it unforgettable. Click now and subscribe for birthday magic all year round! 🎂✨ (Sponsored)
- Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus.
- Josip Broz Tito is re-elected president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he is elected for life.
- India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state holds a referendum in which the popular vote is in favor of merging with India.
- Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
- Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government.
- The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.
- A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
Think birthdays are just cake and candles? 🎂 Think again! 🎉 Dive into trivia, songs, and facts you never knew. Subscribe now and take your celebration to the next level! ✨ (Sponsored)
- Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.
- Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country.
- In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.
- Kuwait permits women’s suffrage in a 35–23 National Assembly vote.
- Nicolas Sarkozy takes office as President of France.
- STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for OV 105.
- Twelve people are killed in two explosions in the Gikomba market area of the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.
- A passenger train collides with a tractor and trailer on a level crossing at Ibbenbüren, Germany. Two people are killed and 40 are injured.
