Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- Nikos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a “temporary cease-fire”, effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
- The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic are established.
- The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
- China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
- Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier, respectively and the collective leadership is established.
- United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
- Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
- Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
- Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- The Balibo Five, a group of Australian-based television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
- Rahima Banu, a two-year-old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox.
- The Australian Coalition opposition parties using their senate majority, vote to defer the decision to grant supply of funds for the Whitlam Government’s annual budget, sparking the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis.
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- Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II after the October 1978 Papal conclave, the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
- Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
- The Bill debuts on ITV, eventually becoming the longest-running police procedural in British television history.
- Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
- Luby’s shooting: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby’s Cafeteria.
- Anti-Nazism riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters.
- The Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C.
- The Skye Bridge is opened.
- Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
- Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
- The extrasolar planet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered.
- Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people.
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