Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 52 events. Showing 31 - 52.
- The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens.
- The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
- The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
- The Fourteenth Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich is received its official premiere.
- Oman joins the Arab League.
- China–Japan relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
- WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world’s first black-owned-and-operated television station.
- Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to visit Ireland.
- The Chicago Tylenol murders begin when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago.
- Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
- Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed.
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- The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
- Military coup in Haiti (1991 Haitian coup d'état).
- Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeached.
- The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84), nicknamed the “Jolly Rogers”.
- The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
- The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.
- Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collides in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, Brazil, killing 154 people, and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.
- Calder Hall, the world’s first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
- Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
- An 8.0 magnitude earthquake near the Samoan Islands causes a tsunami.
- Over 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Gujba, Nigeria.
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