Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 57 events. Showing 31 - 57.
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- Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.
- Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association, which later becomes United Farm Workers.
- James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
- The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.
- The 30 September Movement attempts a coup against the Indonesian government, which is crushed by the military under Suharto and leads to a mass anti-communist purge, with over 500,000 people killed.
- Trapped in the Sky, the pilot episode of Gerry Anderson’s beloved Thunderbirds, airs on ITV for the first time.
- The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.
- BBC Light Programme, Third Programme and Home Service are replaced with BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 Respectively, BBC Radio 1 is also launched with Tony Blackburn presenting its first show.
- The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
- Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson’s Field hijackings.
- Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
- The Hughes (later McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
- Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program’s ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
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- The Hong Kong MTR commences service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
- Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
- Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all.
- Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel’s covert nuclear program to British media, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy by the Israeli Mossad.
- Al Holbert was fatally injured when his privately owned propeller driven Piper PA-60 aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff near Columbus, Ohio when a clamshell door was not closed.
- The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada’s capital city of Ottawa.
- An earthquake hits India’s Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) in Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.
- Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years in service.
- Ongar railway station, the furthest London Underground from Central London, closes.
- Japan’s second-worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
- The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
- The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.
- The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
- The 2009 Sumatra earthquakes occur, killing over 1,115 people.
