Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- The Halifax Riot starts when thousands of civilians and servicemen rampage through Halifax.
- Estonian school girls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which stood in front of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn.
- The Rabindra Bharati University, a prominent University in India, was founded.
- South Vietnamese soldiers of Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis.
- A plane crash at Connellsville, Pennsylvania kills Pennsylvania Attorney General, Walter E. Alessandroni, his wife, and other state officials.
- The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
- The Hard Hat Riot occurs in the Wall Street area of New York City as blue-collar construction workers clash with demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War.
- Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
- Four Black September terrorists hijack Sabena Flight 571. Israeli Sayeret Matkal commandos recapture the plane the following day.
- A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.
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- The rollercoaster Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
- The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
- The World Health Organization confirms the eradication of smallpox.
- The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
- Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three and wounding 13. René Jalbert, Sergeant-at-Arms of the assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.
- The Thames Barrier is officially opened.
- The Loughgall ambush: The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
- A fire at Illinois Bell’s Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered the “worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history”.
- A China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 crashes on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people.
- United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
