Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
- March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
- Declaration of the Youth Pledge in Indonesia, the first time Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem, was sung.
- Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
- World War II: Greece rejects Italy’s ultimatum. So, Greco-Italian War began. Italy invades Greece through Albania, marking Greece’s entry into World War II.
- The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
- Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
- An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in the Azores killing all people on board, including the French former middleweight world champion boxer Marcel Cerdan and French violinist Ginette Neveu
- John XXIII is elected Pope.
- End of Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
- Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam.
- Nostra aetate, the “Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions” of the Second Vatican Council, is promulgated by Pope Paul VI; it absolves the Jews of responsibility for the death of Jesus, reversing Innocent III’s 760-year-old declaration.
- Construction on the Gateway Arch is completed.
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- Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket from Launch Area 5B at Woomera, South Australia, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket.
- The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party wins elections, leading to the first Socialist government in Spain after death of Franco. Felipe González becomes Prime Minister-elect.
- The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic holds the first multiparty legislature election in the country’s history.
- 289 people are killed and 265 injured in Baku Metro fire, the deadliest subway disaster.
- An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan.
- Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.
- The funeral service takes place for those executed at Bykivnia forest, outside Kiev, Ukraine. Eight hundred seventeen Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s are reburied.
- A group of activists of Bangladesh Awami League attacked a rival political party meeting in Dhaka with oars and sculls and killed 14.
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina.
- The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.
- NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program.
- Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers just outside the Forbidden City in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China.
- An unmanned Antares rocket carrying NASA’s Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia.
