Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
- New York Yankees’s Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series.
- Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes the article “Bedingt abwehrbereit” (“Conditionally prepared for defense”) about a NATO manoeuvre called “Fallex 62”, which uncovered the sorry state of the Bundeswehr (Germany’s army) facing the communist threat from the east at the time. The magazine is soon accused of treason.
- Algeria joins the United Nations.
- Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
- Vietnam War: Operation Sealords: United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta.
- The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago.
- Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon’s October 7 peace proposal as “a manoeuvre to deceive world opinion”.
- Yom Kippur War: Gabi Amir’s armored brigade attacks Egyptian occupied positions on the Israeli side of the Suez Canal, in hope of driving them away. The attack fails, and over 150 Israeli tanks are destroyed.
- Greek military junta of 1967–74: Junta strongman George Papadopoulos appoints Spyros Markezinis as Prime Minister of Greece with the task to lead Greece to parliamentary rule.
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- Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
- Australia’s Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60 mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.
- Poland bans Solidarity and all trade unions.
- Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict: In Jerusalem, Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock mosque on the Temple Mount.
- Croatia votes to sever constitutional relations with Yugoslavia, rendering the country fully independent.
- A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy, killing 118 people.
- U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
- Kashmir earthquake: Thousands of people are killed by a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.
- Jurgen Klopp agrees to become the new Liverpool FC manager.
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