Events
Saint
Casimir's Day
(Poland and Lithuania)
Events
1861 – The first national flag of the Confederate
States of America (the "Stars and Bars")
is adopted.
1865 – The third and final national flag
of the Confederate States of America is
adopted by the Confederate Congress.
1882 – Britain's first electric trams run
in east London.
1899 – Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of
Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39
ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres
(3.1 mi) inland, killing over 300.
1918 – The first case of Spanish flu occurs,
the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
1957 – The S&P 500 stock market index
is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
1960 – The French freighter La Coubre explodes
in Havana, Cuba killing 100.
1966 – A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43
explodes on landing at Tokyo International
Airport, killing 64 people.
1970 – French submarine Eurydice explodes
underwater, resulting in the loss of the
entire 57-man crew.
1974 – People magazine is published for
the first time.
1976 – The Northern Ireland Constitutional
Convention is formally dissolved in Northern
Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern
Ireland from London by the British parliament.
1977 – The 1977 Vrancea Earthquake in southern
and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500,
mostly in the seriously damaged Bucharest
in Romania.
1985 – The Food and Drug Administration
approves a blood test for AIDS, used since
then for screening all blood donations in
the United States.
1986 – The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning
images of Halley's Comet and the first images
of its nucleus.
1996 – A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin,
US, causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300
people for 16 days.
1998 – Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore
Services: The Supreme Court of the United
States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job
sexual harassment also apply when both parties
are the same sex.
2007 – Estonian parliamentary election,
2007: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage
of electronic voting in Estonia, the world's
first nationwide voting where part of the
votecasting is allowed in the form of remote
electronic voting via the Internet.
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