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- 1950 β British submarine HMS Truculent collides with an oil tanker in the Thames Estuary, killing 64 men.
- 1950 β Finland forms diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China.
- 1951 β First Indochina War: The Battle of VΔ©nh YΓͺn begins.
- 1953 β An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
- 1958 β The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
- 1963 β Coup d’Γ©tat in Togo results in the assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio.
- 1964 β Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta, resulting in 100 deaths.
- 1964 β In Manchester, New Hampshire, fourteen-year-old Pamela Mason is murdered. Edward Coolidge is tried and convicted of the crime, but the conviction is set aside by the landmark Fourth Amendment case Coolidge v. New Hampshire (1971).
- 1966 β Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
- 1968 β Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison.
- 1972 β Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.
- 1978 β United States Food and Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled “paid” or “volunteer” donors.
- 1982 β Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet, crashes into Washington, D.C.’s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.
- 1985 β A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
- 1986 β A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.
- 1988 β Lee Teng-hui becomes the first native Taiwanese President of the Republic of China.
- 1990 β Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office as Governor of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia.
- 1991 β Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding around 1000 others.
- 1993 β Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.
- 1993 β The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is signed.[8]
- 1998 β Alfredo Ormando sets himself on fire in St. Peter’s Square, protesting against homophobia.
- 2001 β An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
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