1841 events
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (pictured) near Chernobyl, Ukrainian SSR, suffered a steam explosion, resulting in a f
A stationary front began over the central Caribbean Sea, leading to severe floods that over two weeks killed dozens of p
The Animal Liberation Front raided a laboratory at the University of California, Riverside, rescuing 467 animals and cau
Eleven members of the American Black liberation group MOVE were killed when a Philadelphia police helicopter dropped a b
The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for performing human experiments on Auschwitz inmates, were exh
Metropolitan Police officer Yvonne Fletcher was shot and killed while on duty during a protest outside the Libyan embass
Vanessa Williams, the first African-American Miss America, was forced to resign after the magazine Penthouse published…
The constitution of Singapore was amended to apportion seats to defeated opposition candidates in Parliament, which…
Followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (pictured) began deliberately infecting people in The Dalles, Oregon, with…
Followers of Osho began deliberately infecting people in The Dalles, Oregon, with Salmonella in the first and largest…
Discovery, the third orbiter of NASA's Space Shuttle program, lifted off on its maiden voyage from Kennedy Space…
An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat that was disposing of illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo killed seven…
A team of researchers led by French virologist Luc Montagnier published their discovery of HIV, but were not then certai
After writing a letter to Soviet premier Yuri Andropov, American schoolgirl Samantha Smith visited the Soviet Union as…
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, the president of Upper Volta, was ousted in a coup d'état led by Thomas Sankara.
The clandestine Boricua Popular Army staged a bank robbery in West Hartford, Connecticut, making off with $7 million…
The clandestine Boricua Popular Army staged a bank robbery in West Hartford, Connecticut, making off with $7 million…
Flying from Pakistan, Gulf Air Flight 771 was bombed up by the Abu Nidal Organization while on approach over the…
In one of the largest prison escapes in British history, 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners hijacked a…
In one of the largest prison escapes in British history, 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners hijacked a…