Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 65 events. Showing 31 - 60.
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- Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
- In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
- The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.
- Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
- In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge’s completion.
- World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
- A passenger train derails in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico from excessive speed when descending a hill. Sixteen people are killed and 50 are injured.
- Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.
- The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), oldest offshore oil platform.
- Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.
- Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
- Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
- Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
- US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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- The United States Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon’s veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
- In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Colonel Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house-arrested army chief and future president Maj-Gen. Ziaur Rahman. The day is occasionally observed as the National Revolution and Solidarity Day.
- United States Senate bombing: A bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No one is injured, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
- In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
- Singapore’s first Mass Rapid Transit line was opened, starting with train services between Yio Chu Kang and Toa Payoh stations.
- Douglas Wilder wins the governor’s seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
- David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected Mayor of New York City.
- East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.
- Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
- Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
- WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world’s first internet radio broadcast.
- NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
- Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although she was actually still the First Lady.
- Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.
- The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country’s largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
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