Tag: This Day in History
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1986 US hostage freed in Beirut
An American held hostage in Beirut by Muslim fundamentalists has been released. David Jacobsen was set free in the west of the Lebanese capital after 17 ... -
1966 Viet Cong bombs Saigon
At least eight people have been killed and several wounded after Viet Cong artillery shelled the South Vietnamese capital, Saigon. Altogether about 30 shells were fired ... -
1984 Indian prime minister shot dead
Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India, has been killed by assassins in New Delhi. Mrs Gandhi was thought to have been walking through her gardens ... -
1991 Bush opens historic Mid East peace conference
US President George Bush has encouraged Arabs and Israelis to “lay down the past” in his opening speech to the Middle East peace conference in Spain. ... -
1968 Police clash with anti-war protesters
Trouble has flared in Grosvenor Square, London, after an estimated 6,000 marchers faced up to police outside the United States Embassy. The protesters had broken away ... -
1994 Israel and Jordan make peace
Israel and Jordan have signed a peace treaty ending 46 years of war. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and King Hussein of Jordan formally made peace ... -
1984 Europe grants emergency aid for Ethiopia
The EEC is donating £1.8 million to help combat the famine in Ethiopia. Officials from Oxfam, Save the Children, Christian Aid and the Red Cross believe ... -
2001 IRA begins decommissioning weapons
The Northern Ireland peace process has reached an historic breakthrough as the IRA announced they had begun decommissioning their weapons. In a statement the IRA said: ... -
1987 Shares plunge after Wall Street crash
The world’s stock market has collapsed after shares on Wall Street suffered a wave of panic selling. The Dow Jones industrial average plummeted by a record ... -
1976 Funeral of Mafia boss held in NY
The funeral of Carlo Gambino, the ‘boss of the bosses’ in the Mafia, has taken place in New York. Mr Gambino, considered the most powerful of ... -
1996 Handguns to be banned in the UK
The British Government has announced plans to outlaw almost all handguns following the shocking massacre at Dunblane in Scotland. On 13 March Thomas Hamilton walked into ... -
1992 Thousands of miners to lose their jobs
The government is planning to close a third of Britain’s deep coal mines, with the loss of 31,000 jobs. The President of the Board of Trade, ... -
1986 Reykjavik summit ends in failure
US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev have failed to reach agreement at a disarmament summit in Reykjavik. The two men came close to ... -
1987 Search ends for Loch Ness monster
A major sonar exploration of Loch Ness in Scotland has failed to find a monster. Searchers on Operation Deepscan spent a week on the loch using ... -
1973 Arab states attack Israeli forces
Heavy fighting has erupted between Arab and Israeli forces along two fronts. To the south, Egyptian armoured forces have broken the Israeli line on the eastern ... -
1974 Four dead in Guildford bomb blasts
At least four people have been killed and more than 50 injured in two explosions in southern England this evening. Bombs went off in two pubs ... -
1960 Khrushchev anger erupts at UN
The Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev has disrupted a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with several angry outbursts. Twice he pounded his desk and twice ... -
1985 Riots in Brixton after police shooting
Riots have broken out on the streets of south London after a woman was shot and seriously injured in a house search. Armed officers raided a ... -
1984 UK and China agree Hong Kong handover
Britain and China have finalised an agreement which will end more than 150 years of UK rule in Hong Kong. The proposal – which will hand ... -
1950 Seoul in UN hands
United Nations forces have taken control of the South Korean capital Seoul, three months after it fell to North Korea, the US Army has announced. The ... -
1980 War breaks out between Iran and Iraq
Three weeks of border clashes between Iran and Iraq appear to have finally erupted into all-out war. Iraq has bombed several Iranian air and military supply ... -
1998 Clinton’s Grand Jury testimony released
Bill Clinton’s testimony about his relationship with a young female assistant has been released to the United States public. The video of the American president’s 17 ... -
1999 UN force arrives in East Timor
A multinational peacekeeping force has landed in East Timor in an attempt to restore law and order to the territory. The UN force has been sent ... -
1964 The Sun newspaper is born
The Sun newspaper is published today for the first time. It is replacing the Mirror Group’s Daily Herald, which has been losing readers and advertising revenue ... -
1985 USSR expels 25 in tit-for-tat spy row
Two days after the British Government ordered the expulsion of 25 alleged Soviet spies, the USSR has retaliated by throwing out 25 British nationals. It follows ... -
1980 Missing Scottish bear is found
The bear who went missing on a Scottish island while being filmed for a Kleenex television commercial has finally been recaptured. Hundreds of volunteers have been ... -
2001 US declares war on terror
The President of the United States has described the destruction caused in New York and Washington as an act of war against all freedom-loving people. In ... -
2001 US rocked by day of terror
The United States is in a state of shock after a day of attacks which have left thousands dead and New York’s World Trade Center destroyed. ... -
1986 Pinochet survives rebel ambush
The president of Chile has escaped an attempt on his life in a fierce attack which killed five of his bodyguards and wounded 11 more. General ... -
1992 Troops kill 24 at ANC rally
At least 24 people have been killed and 150 injured when soldiers fired on an African National Congress demonstration on the border of Ciskei in South ... -
1997 Diana’s funeral watched by millions
Britain and the world have said farewell to Diana, Princess of Wales, at the end of an unprecedented week of mourning. A four mile procession brought ... -
1997 Mother Teresa dies
Mother Teresa, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who devoted her life to helping the sick and the poor, has died at the age of 87. She ... -
1997 Suicide bombings put peace visit in doubt
Eight people have been killed and over 150 injured in a series of suicide bomb attacks in the centre of Jerusalem. The three bombers – who ... -
1959 Anglo-US TV debate makes history
British prime minister Harold Macmillan and American president Dwight Eisenhower have given an historic live television broadcast from Downing Street. Among the subjects the two leaders ... -
1997 Princess Diana dies in Paris crash
Diana, Princess of Wales, has died after a car crash in Paris. She was taken to hospital in the early hours of Sunday morning where surgeons ...
