Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- Mother Teresa build an order called Missionary of Charity
- American poet Allen Ginsberg performs his poem Howl for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco.
- President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza, with the support of General Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law, and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959.
- The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
- U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
- Nigeria joins the United Nations.
- John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Test Ban Treaty.
- Oman joins the United Nations.
- Hua Guofeng becomes Mao Zedong’s successor as chairman of Communist Party of China, following the latter’s death barely a month earlier.
- The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
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- The Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Front.
- The Mameyes landslide kills close to 300 in the worst landslide in North American history.
- Sikh nationalists declares the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized.
- An Inupiat hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice in Barrow, Alaska, US; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.
- Croatian War of Independence: Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb kills one civilian.
- The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
- The Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.
- Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.
- The Global War on Terrorism begins as a result of the September 11 attacks. The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan initiates with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
- The governor of California, Gray Davis, is recalled in favor of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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