Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 42 events. Showing 31 - 42.
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- In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
- The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
- Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
- Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists.
- PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
- Fiji becomes a republic.
- 51 Pegasi is discovered to be the second major star apart from the Sun to have a planet orbiting around it.
- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women is adopted.
- Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.
- Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez resigns.
- The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
- Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
