Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 45 events. Showing 31 - 45.
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- The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, comes into force.
- Fiji becomes independent.
- In Montreal, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
- Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
- Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.
- Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
- A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs in the Algerian town of El Asnam. Around 3,500 die and 300,000 are left homeless.
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- FMLN is founded in El Salvador.
- United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise ship, and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested.
- An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
- An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
- A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
- The 2008 Orakzai bombing kills 110 and injures 200 more.
- Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders.
- The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.
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