This Day In History
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1920- Azerbaijan SSR joins USSR (1st time)
1925- Kurdish rebels surrender to Turkish army 1925- Netherlands & Great Britain return to gold standard
1937- 1st animated cartoon electric sign displayed (NYC)
1949 - Former Philippine First Lady Aurora Quezon, 61, assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and 10 others also killed
1951 - Mohammad Mosaddegh elected Prime Minister of Iran by the Parlia¬ment of Iran (Majlis)
1952 - WW II Pacific peace treaty takes effect 1956 - Last French troops leave Vietnam
1958 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1958 - Vanguard TV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1965 - US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966
1967 - Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title
1969 - Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France1971 - Samuel Lee Gravely Jr becomes 1st black admiral in US Navy
1972 - Courts award 1968 Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner due to the winner being given drugs before the race
1973 - Over 6000 Mk. 82 500 pound bombs detonate over 18 hrs in a railyard in northern California. 5500 structures damaged, town of Antelope destroyed, with every building reduced to foundations. Leads to Transpor¬tation Safety Act (1974)
1975 - South-Vietnam Gen Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30
1977 - Andreas Baader and members of terrorist group the Red Army Fac¬tion (Baader-Meinhof Gang) jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly 2 years in Stuttgart, Germany
1977 - The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.
1983 - Argentine government declares all 1530,000 missing persons dead
1983 - NASA launches Geos-F
1986 - Soviet TV news program Vremya announces a nuclear accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station, 2 days after the event
1987 - NBA announces expansion to Charlotte NC & Miami Fla in 1988 & Minneapolis Minn & Orlando Fla in 1989
1988 - Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess.
1989 - Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money
1989 - Iran protests sale of “Satanic Verses” by Salman Rushdie
1991 - Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) launched
1993 - Carlo Ciampi forms Italian government with ex-communists
1993 - Zambian plane crashes at Libreville, Gabon, 30 soccer players die
1994 - Aldrich Ames, former CIA officer & wife Rosario plead guilty to spy¬ing.
1994 - Freddy Thielemans sworn in as Mayor of Brussels, Belgium
1995 - Gas explosion in South Korean metro, 103 die
1995 - Sri Lankaan BAE748 crashes at Palaly, 52 die
2001 - Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world’s first space tourist.
2003 - Andre Agassi recaptures the world no. 1 ranking to become the old¬est top-ranked male in the history of the ATP rankings (33 years, 13 days)
2005 - The Patent Law Treaty goes into effect. 2013 - 8 people are killed and dozens are injured after Taliban attacks on election candidates in Pakistan