Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 54 events. Showing 31 - 54.
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- Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
- Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic “March Against Death”.
- Intel releases the world’s first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
- René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence.
- A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
- A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
- Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded. Recognized only by Turkey.
- A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
- The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
- Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver’s Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash.
- In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
- In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
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- Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
- The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
- Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
- The Communist People’s Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
- A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.
- Jharkhand state comes into existence in India.
- Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
- The first day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people and wounding about 300. Additional bombings follow on November 20.
- Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.
- Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world’s largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans.
- Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
- Four people are killed and 16 others are injured in the Midland train crash after a Union Pacific train struck a parade float in Midland, Texas.
