Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 54 events. Showing 31 - 54.
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- Nearly 5,000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshū as the result of a typhoon.
- Sierra Leone joins the United Nations.
- The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
- The British TSR-2 aircraft XR219 makes its maiden flight from Boscombe Down in Wiltshire.
- The stage musical Hair opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof collapsing in July 1973.
- The last use of capital punishment in Spain sees the executions of five members of militant organisations, sparking worldwide protests against the Spanish government and the withdrawal of numerous ambassadors.
- A U.S. Navy McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II crashes into a residential neighborhood in Yokohama, Japan, killing two children on the ground and injuring seven other people.
- The United States Department of Education receives final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.
- Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
- National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
- The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.
- In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
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- Tanker ship Julie N. spills thousands of gallons of oil after crashing into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine .
- Communications are suddenly lost with the Mars Pathfinder space probe.
- The Google internet search engine retrospectively claims this as its birthday.
- The first Olympic Gold Medal ever for taekwondo was won by Greek athlete Michail Mouroutsos in men’s -58 kg division in Sydney.
- Zug massacre: In Zug, Switzerland, Friedrich Leibacher shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.
- Timor-Leste joins the United Nations.
- SMART-1 satellite is launched.
- After 162 episodes, Tom and Jerry airs its final episode, “The Karate Guard”.
- NASA launches the Dawn probe.
- CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk while flying on Shenzhou 7.
- A mass shooting takes place at Accent Signage Systems, in Minneapolis, killing 6 people, including the gunman who committed suicide, and wounding 2 others.
- A total lunar eclipse takes place during a supermoon visible across much of the world.
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