Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 52 events. Showing 31 - 52.
- The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the WSM Barn Dance.
- In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 492 people.
- World War II: Tehran Conference – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran, to discuss war strategy.
- Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
- Mauritania becomes independent of France.
- Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.
- Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam.
- Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson’s call for “more flags” in Vietnam, Philippine President-elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
- Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.
- Fred Quilt, a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation suffers severe abdominal injuries allegedly caused by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers; he dies two days later.
- Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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- Last executions in Paris: Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems are guillotined at La Santé Prison. The chief executioner is André Obrecht. (Bontems had been found innocent of murder, but as Buffet’s accomplice was condemned to death anyway)
- East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.
- Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
- Iran–Iraq War: Operation Morvarid – The bulk of the Iraqi Navy is destroyed by the Iranian Navy in the Persian Gulf. (Commemorated in Iran as Navy Day.)
- Our Lady of Kibeho: Schoolchildren in Kibeho, Rwanda, experience the first of a series of Marian apparitions.
- South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on board.
- Cold War: Velvet Revolution – In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.
- South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.
- Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air missiles.
- A 5.6 earthquake in Iran kills seven people and injures 45 others.
- Gunmen set off three bombs at the central mosque in the northern city of Kano killing at least 120 people.
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