Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 51 events. Showing 31 - 51.
- The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching the N1 rocket.
- Sixty Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are executed by the provisional military government.
- Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.
- Cyclone kills about 1000 people in Eastern Sri Lanka.
- The Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975 goes into effect, realigning many of Europe’s longwave & mediumwave broadcasting frequencies.
- In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.
- A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 3,000 people.
- Iran–Contra affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
- Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid.
- The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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- Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.
- Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.
- The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
- Rose Revolution: Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
- The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country.
- A series of bombings kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.
- MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities.
- The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Philippines
- Bombardment of Yeonpyeong: North Korean artillery attack kills two civilians and two marines on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea.
- Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
