Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 45 events. Showing 31 - 45.
- The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
- The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.
- Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
- A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
- Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
- Pope John Paul II starts his 11-day papal visit to Fort Simpson, Canada and afterwards to several southern and western cities in the United States.
- The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast, the largest church in Africa, is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
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- Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
- Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
- Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.
- Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
- Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is fatally stabbed while shopping, and dies the following day.
- Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
- The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
- The first Invictus Games took place at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.
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