Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
- The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network.
- Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, to Los Angeles.
- The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City’s Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
- The Anne Frank House museum opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) is established.
- The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and responds with violent force to stop the “Birmingham campaign” protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing new-found attention to the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
- The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet as the world’s tallest building.
- The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as “spam”) is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
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- After the general election, Margaret Thatcher forms her first government as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes in an airliner (Flight UL512) at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
- A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
- The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph (484 +/- 32 km/h).
- The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
- The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
- A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
- New Hampshire’s famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.
- Two gunmen launch an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, which was held in response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
