Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 80 events. Showing 31 - 60.
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- The Japanese city Handa is founded in Aichi Prefecture.
- Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
- After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile Nazi forces enter the city.
- The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
- USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she is carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
- First flight of the Bell XP-59 “Aircomet”.
- World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
- Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg trials.
- Daegu October Incident occurs in Allied occupied Korea.
- Mensa International is founded in the UK.
- The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
- The People’s Republic of China is established and declared by Mao Zedong.
- The Honeymooners premiered on American television.
- First appearance of In God we trust on U.S. paper currency.
- NASA is created to replace NACA.
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- Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- The United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is formed, becoming the country’s first centralized military espionage organization.
- East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
- First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
- The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
- Japanese Shinkansen (“bullet trains”) begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
- General Suharto puts down an apparent coup attempt by the 30 September Movement in Indonesia.
- West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatalities and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
- The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
- Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
- Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
- The first brain-scan using x-ray computed tomography (CT or CAT scan) is performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.
- The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu.
- Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
- Al Jackson, Jr. (Booker T. & the M.G.'s), was shot fatally five times in the back in his own home.
