Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 47 events. Showing 31 - 47.
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- The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah al-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency.
- Lord Denning releases the UK government’s official report on the Profumo Affair.
- The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.
- The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.
- Ceasefire between Jordan and the Fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9.
- In a referendum, the people of Norway reject membership of the European Community.
- The first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (Tommy John surgery) performed, on baseball player Tommy John.
- About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
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- PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing 144 people.
- Belize joins the United Nations.
- Maze Prison escape: Thirty-eight republican prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze prison. It is the largest prison escape since World War II and in British history.
- NASA launches the Mars Observer, a $511 million probe to Mars, in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. Eleven months later, the probe would fail.
- The last of the Magdalene asylums closes in Ireland.
- The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact, occurs in Siberia, Russia.
- A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
- China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.
- U.S. President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a joint TV appearance for a G-20 summit, accuse Iran of building a secret nuclear enrichment facility.
