Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 61 events. Showing 31 - 60.
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- First flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
- World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
- World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
- The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
- Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
- Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
- Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the International Railway (New York–Ontario).
- World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson’s Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
- The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe.
- Deputy Primer Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel ordered the Army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union.
- Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
- Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
- The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
- South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh.
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- Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
- State police and National Guardsmen storm New York’s Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt.
- Chairman Mao Zedong’s second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees the People’s Republic of China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
- South Africa grants independence to the “homeland” of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
- Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.
- Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.
- Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).
- Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
- Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
- Ulysses probe passes the Sun’s south pole.
- Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.
- Kimveer Gill kills one student and injures 19 more in the Dawson College shooting.
- The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
- Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
- Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston and surrounding areas.
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