Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 66 events. Showing 31 - 60.
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- Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world’s first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
- Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
- Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
- Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover’s severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan’s most notorious scandals.
- A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
- The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa.
- Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition: A gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
- American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
- Adoption of the Flag of Ontario by the Canadian province.
- The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
- Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
- Michelangelo’s Pietà in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
- The Yuba City bus disaster occurs in Martinez, California. Twenty-nine are killed making it the deadliest road accident in U.S. history.
- White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
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- Irish Republican hunger strikers Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O'Hara die on hunger strike in Maze prison.
- The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries.
- Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos.
- Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
- Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People’s Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
- After 30 seasons Johnny Carson hosted his penultimate episode and last featuring guests (Robin Williams and Bette Midler) of The Tonight Show.
- The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out.
- The ferry MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000.
- The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas, kidnapped during the Algerian Civil War and held for two months, are found dead.
- In Miami, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
- President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Trisakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt rule.
- French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
- An earthquake hits northern Algeria, killing more than 2,000 people.
- The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.
- The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro; 55% of Montenegrins vote for independence.
