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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- Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Vietnamese victory (the battle began on March 13).
- Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
- Pacific Air Lines Flight 773, a Fairchild F-27 airliner, crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
- West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns.
- Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits.
- Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.
- The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission, STS-49.
- Three employees at a McDonald’s Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first “fast-food murder” in Canada.
- Edvard Munch’s iconic painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.
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- Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
- Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
- Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
- In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
- Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.
- A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.
- American businessman Nick Berg is beheaded by Islamic militants. The act is recorded on videotape and released on the Internet.
- Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.
- Over 100 New Zealand Police officers begin a 40-hour siege of a lone gunman in Napier, New Zealand.
- Twenty-seven people are killed and more than 30 injured, when a tanker truck crashes and explodes outside Mexico City.
