Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 48 events. Showing 31 - 48.
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- Partition Plan: The United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine.
- First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.
- Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force United Nations forces to retreat from North Korea.
- Korean War: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.
- Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission – Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
- U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
- Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashes shortly after takeoff from Montreal-Dorval International Airport, killing all 118 people on board.
- The Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette 2.
- Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
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- Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game.
- Graham Hill and Tony Brise, along with four other members of the Embassy Hill F1 team, were killed when their plane crashed at Arkley golf course, England, in thick fog.
- The Surinamese military attacks the village of Moiwana during the Suriname Guerrilla War, killing at least 39 civilians, mostly women and children.
- Korean Air Flight 858 explodes over the Thai–Burmese border, killing 115.
- Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes two resolutions to restore international peace and security if Iraq does not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.
- The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to the Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.
- A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the northern coast of Martinique. This affects the Eastern Caribbean as far north as Puerto Rico and as far south as Trinidad.
- Maurice Clemmons shoots and kills four police officers inside a coffee shop in Lakewood, Washington.
- LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 crashes in Namibia, killing 33 people.
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