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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- World War II: The Battle of Hel begins, the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance during the German invasion of Poland.
- Burmese national hero U Ottama dies in prison after a hunger strike to protest Britain’s colonial government.
- George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
- Treznea massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians kill 93 Romanian civilians in Treznea, a village in Northern Transylvania, as part of attempts to ethnic cleansing.
- World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.
- World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
- World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
- Second Sino-Japanese War: The Empire of Japan formally surrenders to China.
- First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
- Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
- Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
- The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
- Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to cause over $1 billion in unadjusted damage.
- The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashes near Fairland, Indiana.
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- In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making French equal to English throughout the Federal government.
- A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson’s Field in Jordan.
- The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, eventually resulting in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
- In Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.
- Batticaloa massacre: Massacre of 184 minority Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan Army in the eastern Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka.
- Tajikistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
- The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
- Sega releases the first 128-bit video game console, the Dreamcast.
- Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al-Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
- Pärnu methanol tragedy occurs in Pärnu County, Estonia.
- The Unix billennium is reached, marking the beginning of the use of 10-digit decimal Unix time stamps.
- The Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.
- The Indian space agency puts into orbit its heaviest foreign satellite yet, in a streak of 21 consecutive successful PLSV launches.
- A wave of attacks kill more than 100 people and injure 350 others across Iraq.
- Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
