Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
- Leave It to Beaver premieres on CBS.
- Fifth Republic of France is established.
- Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston’s Logan International Airport, killing 62 of 72 on board.
- Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
- Pope Paul VI arrives in New York, the first Pope to visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere.
- Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
- Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.
- Founding of the New Democracy party in Greece.
- Official launch of the InterCity 125 high speed train.
- Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph, driving Thrust2 at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
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- The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States.
- U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.
- The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
- The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16-year civil war in Mozambique.
- El Al Flight 1862: An El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
- Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside.
- The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. A Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million stolen cash.
- NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
- Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: A Sibir Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.
- Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: Twenty-one Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.
- SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.
- The Ajka plant accident in western Hungary releases about a million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet) of liquid alumina sludge. Nine people are killed and 122 injured, and the Marcal and Danube rivers are severely contaminated.
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