Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 67 events. Showing 31 - 60.
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- World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
- Getúlio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
- Safsaf massacre: Israeli soldiers capture Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee and massacre villagers after they surrender.
- BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco. Pianist William Kapell is among the 19 killed.
- The Soviet battleship Novorossiysk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
- Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
- The Tangier Protocol is signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco.
- Israel’s prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when a hand grenade is tossed into Israel’s parliament, the Knesset.
- In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
- An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio.
- Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
- The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed the United Republic of Tanzania.
- A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves (among them is “Murph the surf”) from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
- London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.
- Montreal’s World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
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- The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
- In Macon, Georgia, guitarist Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle accident.
- The three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre are released from prison in exchange for the hostages of hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615.
- Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base’s Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
- Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
- British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
- The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
- Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran is later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton).
- Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
- Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
- ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space shuttle mission.
- While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of six and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
- Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
- The Gothenburg discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures 200.
- A large cyclone devastates Odisha, India.
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