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An organized mob of police and government-sponsored Sinhalese paramilitary forces began three days of attacks that led t
An organized mob of police and government-sponsored Sinhalese paramilitary forces began three days of attacks that led t
The Israeli Air Force attacked a nuclear reactor under the assumption that it was about to start producing plutonium to
The Israeli Air Force attacked a nuclear reactor under the assumption that it was about to start producing plutonium to
Amid a widespread economic crisis and food shortages in Poland, up to 50,000 people, mostly women and children, took…
"Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles became the first music video broadcast on the American cable television…
U.S. president Ronald Reagan fired the 11,345 striking members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers…
Iranian president Mohammad-Ali Rajai and prime minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar were assassinated in a bombing…
Iranian president Mohammad-Ali Rajai and prime minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar were assassinated in a bombing…
Iran–Iraq War: Iran broke the Iraqi siege of Abadan by Operation Samen-ol-A'emeh.
A hunger strike by Irish republican prisoners at HM Prison Maze outside Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended after seven…
Egyptian president Anwar Sadat (pictured) was assassinated while attending a parade in Cairo to mark the eighth…
Egyptian president Anwar Sadat (pictured) was assassinated while attending a parade in Cairo to mark the eighth…
Robert Mugabe became the first prime minister of Zimbabwe, beginning a 37-year period in power
The British Special Air Service recaptured the Iranian embassy in London following a six-day siege after Iranian Arab se
Salvadoran Civil War: Refugees trying to flee El Salvador across the Sumpul River to Honduras were attacked by both Salv
Aeroflot Flight 4225 crashed near Almaty International Airport in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (present day…
A bomb was planted at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, which the FBI later described as the most complex…
Solidarity, a Polish trade union, was founded as the first independent labor union in an Eastern Bloc country.