Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 46 events. Showing 31 - 46.
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- A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
- Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as “A Time for Choosing”.
- Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the ‘Baltimore Four’protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
- A 1.4 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes in Cañon City, Colorado.
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
- The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
- The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.
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- Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
- Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
- United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating first military, then national, debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States “Don't ask, don't tell” military policy.
- Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
- Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
- October 27, 1997 mini-crash: Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15.
- Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and six other members.
- Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.
