Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 58 events. Showing 31 - 58.
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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 Córdoba, 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.
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