1718 events
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…
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.
Blair Peach, a New Zealand teacher, was fatally injured while taking part in an Anti-Nazi League demonstration against a
Margaret Thatcher became the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom
Prominent Iranian Jew Habib Elghanian was executed after having been convicted by a revolutionary tribunal of various ch
Having invaded Uganda and deposed President Idi Amin, Tanzanian forces secured Uganda's western border, ending a seven-m
Having invaded Uganda and deposed President Idi Amin, Tanzanian forces secured Uganda's western border, ending a seven-m
Jerry Rawlings came to power in Ghana as chairman of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
Bill Stewart, an American journalist, was executed by Nicaraguan Guardia forces
US president Jimmy Carter signed a presidential finding, authorizing covert operations to aid the mujahideen against…
The Troubles: the IRA ambushed and killed 18 British soldiers near Warrenpoint, and assassinated Lord Mountbatten on…
Afghan president Nur Muhammad Taraki (pictured) was overthrown and later killed on the orders of Hafizullah Amin, who…