Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 59 events. Showing 31 - 59.
- The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- Arab–Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.
- Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha’s Parinibbāna.
- The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland.
- United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
- Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.
- American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for “disturbing the peace” after disembarking from their bus.
- Cyprus joins the Council of Europe.
- Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
- Baldwin–Kennedy meeting on race relations in the US
- Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel.
- FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City.
- The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union.
- The London to Washington, D.C., Concorde service begins.
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- The Judgment of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine.
- Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós Aguilera, his wife, and his presidential committee die in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president gave a famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha.
- Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War.
- Section 28 of the United Kingdom’s Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.
- Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
- The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests.
- Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
- Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
- The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
- Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
- Mountaineering: Temba Tsheri, a 16-year-old Sherpa, becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
- The Versailles wedding hall disaster in Jerusalem, Israel kills 23 and injures over 200.
- Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.
- A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, injuring 324 people.
- At least 3 people are killed in a shooting at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, Belgium
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