Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 62 events. Showing 31 - 60.
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- Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
- U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary’s Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
- Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit.
- Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
- The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
- The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
- Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park.
- Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA’s Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions)
- Dawson’s Field hijackings: Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
- Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, ‘Messiah’of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.
- Juventude Africana Amílcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.
- South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody.
- Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale.
- Military coup in Turkey.
- A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
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- The USSR vetoes a United Nations Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet shooting down of a Korean civilian jetliner on September 1.
- Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 246, previously set by Herb Score in 1954. Gooden’s 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record.
- Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
- The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification.
- NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
- Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path’s leadership fell as well.
- Frank Eugene Corder crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House’s south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself.
- Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor.
- Ansett Australia, Australia’s first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
- The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
- Iraq War: In Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
- Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny’s Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
- Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder.
- The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
- The 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City opens to the public.
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