UN
Day
World
Health Day
International
Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against
the Tutsi in Rwanda
Day of Maternity and Beauty (Armenia)
Genocide Memorial Day (Rwanda)
Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume Day (Tanzania)
Women's Day (Mozambique)
Events
1788 – American Pioneers to the
Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of
the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta,
Ohio, as the first permanent American settlement
of the new United States in the Northwest Territory,
and opening the westward expansion of the new
country.
1827 – John Walker, an English chemist, sells
the first friction match that he had invented
the previous year.
1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
1927 – First distance public television broadcast
(from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying
the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
1946 – Syria's independence from France is officially
recognised.
1948 – The World Health Organization is established
by the United Nations.
1948 – A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai,
China, leaving twenty monks dead.
1954 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his
"domino theory" speech during a news
conference.
1956 – Spain relinquishes its protectorate in
Morocco.
1964 – IBM announces the System/360.
1969 – The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication
of RFC 1.
1978 – Development of the neutron bomb is canceled
by President Jimmy Carter.
1983 – During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave
and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle
spacewalk.
1992 – Republika Srpska announces its independence.
1994 – Rwandan Genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin
in Kigali, Rwanda.
1999 – The World Trade Organization rules in favor
of the United States in its long-running trade
dispute with the European Union over bananas.
2001 – Mars Odyssey is launched.
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