Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 60 events. Showing 31 - 60.
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- Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalists following a one-day siege.
- Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro Obrero massacre.
- Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.
- World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.
- World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae Nadzab Airport, near Lae in the Salamaua–Lae campaign.
- Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
- Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
- Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
- In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
- Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
- On the Road, a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, is published.
- The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
- Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) wins the gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.
- My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
- Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province.
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- Jochen Rindt becomes the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers’ Championship (in F1 1970), after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix.
- Munich massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called “Black September” attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the attack and nine die the following day.
- Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
- Hanns Martin Schleyer is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered.
- Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
- Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland.
- The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world’s longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.
- STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
- Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
- Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
- Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians.
- The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force.
- Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115 mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people.
- A firecracker factory explodes near Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, killing 40 and injuring 50 others.
- An accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in Afyon, western Turkey kills 25 soldiers and wounds four others.
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