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Historical Events

The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.

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  • World War I veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C., in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
  • First flight of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aeroplane.
  • The Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
  • The first flight of the Vought F4U Corsair.
  • Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and his Orchestra record Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas”, the best-selling single in history.
  • First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
  • Creation of the United Nations peacekeeping force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization.
  • The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  • Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay’s (adopted) 39th birthday.
  • First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
  • The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
  • General strike in CĂłrdoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest.
  • Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
  • Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.

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  • Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
  • Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.
  • Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
  • The U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
  • Signing of an agreement between Egypt and the United States, allowing the manufacture of parts of the F-16 jet fighter plane in Egypt.
  • The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
  • The Miss Sarajevo beauty pageant is held in war torn Sarajevo drawing global attention to the plight of its citizens.
  • Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
  • Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
  • Charlotte Perrelli representing Sweden wins Eurovision Song Contest 1999 in Jerusalem with the song Take Me to Your Heaven.
  • The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
  • The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
  • A doublet earthquake, of combined magnitude 6.1, strikes Iceland near the town of Selfoss, injuring 30 people.
  • A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits northern Italy near Bologna, killing at least 24 people.