Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 49 events. Showing 31 - 49.
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- Northern Ireland’s power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.
- Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.
- In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
- Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
- West German pilot Mathias Rust, who was 18 years old, evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. He is immediately detained and would not be released until August 3, 1988.
- The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
- Eritrea and Monaco join the United Nations.
- The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, half of the total population.
- U.S. President Bill Clinton’s former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
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- Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
- In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
- The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.
- NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
- The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.
- Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct.
- The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq’s interim government.
- The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
- In West Bengal, India, a train derailment and subsequent collision kills 141 passengers.
- Malta votes on the introduction of divorce.
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