2516 events
Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 encounters severe wind shear and crashes on final approach to New York's JFK Airport killing
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of internal emergency in India
Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the authoritarian-conservative Estado Novo regime
Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the authoritarian-conservative Estado Novo regime
Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape
Watergate scandal: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings agai
Ma'alot massacre: Members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine attack and take hostages at an Israeli
The Troubles: Thirty-three civilians are killed and 300 injured when the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) detonates four car
Police in Los Angeles raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall
Nuclear weapons testing: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming th
Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of Yugoslavia
Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists
The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine
Vice President Isabel Perón assumes powers and duties as Acting President of Argentina, while her husband President Juan
A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservat
Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg's charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New
Aeroflot Flight 6551 crashes in Semey, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (now Kazakhstan), killing all 63 aboard
Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate