Gautam
Buddha's Birthday
International Day of the Roma
Events
1904 – Longacre Square in Midtown
Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New
York Times.
1906 – Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed
with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
1908 – Harvard University votes to establish the
Harvard Business School.
1911 – Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
discovers superconductivity.
1929 – Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi
Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar
Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
1946 – The last meeting of the League of Nations,
the precursor of the United Nations, is held.
1946 – Électricité de France, the world's largest
utility company, is formed as a result of the
nationalisation of a number of electricity producers,
transporters and distributors.
1954 – A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard
collided with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair
North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing
37 people.
1954 – South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland
DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night
killing 21 people.
1959 – A team of computer manufacturers, users,
and university people led by Grace Hopper meets
to discuss the creation of a new programming language
that would be called COBOL.
1961 – A large explosion on board the MV Dara
in the Persian Gulf kills 238.
1968 – BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after
take off. As a result of her actions in the accident,
Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous
George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in
peacetime.
1992 – Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces
that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions
during one of his two heart surgeries.
1993 – The Republic of Macedonia joins the United
Nations.
2005 – Over four million people attend the funeral
of Pope John Paul II.
2008 – The construction of the world's first building
to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain.
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