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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- The first talking Mickey Mouse cartoon, “The Karnival Kid”, is released.
- A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000.
- A Luftwaffe air raid on Dublin, Ireland, claims 38 lives.
- Anglo-Iraqi War: The United Kingdom completes the re-occupation of Iraq and returns 'Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II.
- World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
- The Union of South Africa becomes the Republic of South Africa.
- In Moscow City Court, the Rokotov–Faibishenko show trial begins, despite the Khrushchev Thaw to reverse Stalinist elements in Soviet society.
- The West Indies Federation dissolves.
- The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed.
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- In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
- The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
- The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is completed.
- The burning of Jaffna library in Sri Lanka. It is one of the violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the twentieth century.
- United States–Canada tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
- A group of six members of the guerrilla group Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) of Peru, shoot dead eight transsexuals, in the city of Tarapoto.
- Bicesse Accords in Angola lay out a transition to multi-party democracy under the supervision of the United Nations’ UNAVEM II mission.
- Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was Deep Throat.
- In international waters, armed Shayetet 13 commandos, intending to force the flotilla to anchor at the Ashdod port, boarded ships trying to break the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip, resulting in nine civilian deaths.
- The asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries.
