Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- The United States Numbered Highway System, including U.S. Route 66, is established.
- Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
- The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
- World War II: Battle of Taranto – The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.
- The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
- Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in the U.S. Midwest.
- World War II: Nazi Germany completes its occupation of France.
- A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is crushed.
- Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force are massacred by a mob in the course of the Kindu atrocity.
- Kuwait’s National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
- In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence.
- NASA launches Gemini 12.
- Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to “new left” antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
- Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
- A second republic is declared in the Maldives.
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- Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
- Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.
- Independence of Angola.
- Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.
- The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
- A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
- The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
- Kaprun disaster: 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
- Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
- New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
- The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
- Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
- RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) sets sail on her final voyage to Dubai.
- Bethesda Softworks releases The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to universal acclaim, becoming one of the fastest selling video games of all time.
- A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma, killing at least 26 people.
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