Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 69 events. Showing 31 - 60.
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- Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
- World War I: The Race to the Sea begins.
- World War I: Manfred von Richthofen (“The Red Baron”), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
- The Border Protection Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
- The Church of Central Africa Presbyterian is formed.
- The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the Galveston hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
- The Ararat rebellion is suppressed.
- A speech by Laureano Gómez leads to the escalation of the Leticia Incident.
- World War II: The Soviet Union joins Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.
- World War II: German submarine U-29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous.
- Taisto Mäki becomes the first man to run the 10,000 metres in under 30 minutes, in a time of 29:52.6.
- World War II: Following the German defeat in the Battle of Britain, Hitler postpones Operation Sea Lion indefinitely.
- World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, is issued.
- World War II: Soviet forces enter Tehran marking the end of the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran.
- World War II: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated from Germans.
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- World War II: Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the “Market” half of Operation Market Garden.
- World War II: Soviet troops launch the Tallinn Offensive against Germany and pro independence Estonian units.
- World War II: German forces are attacked by the Allies in the Battle of San Marino.
- The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the United Nations to mediate between the Arab nations and Israel.
- The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his sovereignty over the Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union.
- The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.
- Malaysia joins the United Nations.
- The world’s first retractable-dome stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- The Battle of Chawinda is fought between Pakistan and India.
- Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.
- The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.
- The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.
- After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
- Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.
- Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
