Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet exercises dictatorial power until ousted in a referendum in 1988, staying in power until 1990.
- Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 69 passengers and two crew.
- A group of Croatian nationalists plant a bomb in a coin locker at Grand Central Terminal. After stating political demands, they reveal the location and provided instructions for disarming the bomb. The disarming operation are not executed properly and the bomb explodes, killing one NYPD bomb squad specialist.
- Janet Parker is the last person to die of smallpox, in a laboratory-associated outbreak.
- Voters approve a new Constitution of Chile, later amended after the departure of president Pinochet.
- The international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel’s 1982 Invasion of Lebanon leave Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees are massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
- Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb’s baseball record for most career hits with his 4,192nd hit.
- The St. Jean Bosco massacre takes place in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
- Hungary announces that the East German refugees who had been housed in temporary camps were free to leave for West Germany.
- Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history, devastates the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu.
- NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
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- After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament within the United Kingdom.
- Fourteen Estonian soldiers die in the Kurkse tragedy, drowning in the Baltic Sea.
- Opening ceremony for the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia is the first Asian country to host the games.
- Melbourne hosts World Economic Forum where S11 protests also take place.
- Two hijacked aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, while a third smashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks by 19 members of al-Qaeda. In total 2,996 people are killed.
- Taiwanese girl group S.H.E. was formed hours before the 911 attacks.
- Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.
- A major Channel Tunnel fire broke out on a freight train, closed part of tunnel for 6 months.
- A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan.
- The U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths.
- A 400 km long human chain called Catalan Way is organized by the Assemblea Nacional Catalana for the independence of Catalonia
- A crane collapses onto the Masjid al-Haram mosque in Saudi Arabia killing 111 people and injuring 394 others.
