Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 43 events. Showing 31 - 43.
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- In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
- In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
- The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
- The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also known as the Second Kashmir War) between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the UN calls for a ceasefire.
- Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.
- The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
- Iraq invades Iran.
- The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.
- A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.
- A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
- An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
- Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil school children.
- At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a church in Peshawar, Pakistan.
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