Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 57 events. Showing 31 - 57.
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- Hollywood Black Friday: A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers’ studios.
- The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
- The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000.
- The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held.
- Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
- Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.
- The Beatles’ first single, “Love Me Do” backed with “P.S. I Love You”, is released in the United Kingdom.
- Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.
- Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland – considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles.
- The first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus airs on BBC One.
- The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
- Montreal: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group, triggering the October Crisis.
- Signature of the European Patent Convention.
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- Guildford pub bombings: bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill four British soldiers and one civilian.
- Operation Primicia: terrorist attack against a Military Regiment at Formosa, Argentina.
- Chicago Tylenol murders: Johnson & Johnson initiates a nationwide product recall in the United States for all products in its Tylenol brand after several bottles in Chicago are found to have been laced with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths.
- Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
- Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu’s story on its front page under the headline: “Revealed — the secrets of Israel’s nuclear arsenal”.
- The Chilean opposition coalition Concertación (center-left) defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt and a general election is called the following year.
- The Brazilian Constitution is ratified by the Constituent Assembly.
- After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
- An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.
- The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
- The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
- Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution.
- Barry Bonds surpasses Mark McGwire’s single-season home run total with his milestone 71st and 72nd home runs.
- In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered in the lawless Golden Triangle region of Southeast Asia.
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