2372 results for “World War” — type: events (832 ms)
The 2020 World Expo in Dubai begins. Its opening was originally scheduled for 20 October 2020 but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Denmark introduces the world's first legal same-sex registered partnerships.
EPCOT Center (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) opens at Walt Disney World in Florida.
Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin American player to appear in a World Series.
The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.
The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes.
The New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series.
The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal.
Kenyan Brigid Kosgei sets a new world record for a woman runner with a time of 2:14:04 at the 2019 Chicago Marathon.
The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.
In New York City, B'nai B'rith, the oldest Jewish service organization in the world, is founded.
Germany withdraws from the League of Nations and World Disarmament Conference.
The 1964–65 New York World's Fair closes after two years and more than 51 million attendees.
Based on the world's first children's art museum, the Henrik Igityan National Centre for Aesthetics opened in Yerevan.
The World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time.
Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893.
The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.
�Millerites (followers of Baptist preacher William Miller) anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day becomes known as the Great Disappointment.