All Events

• Jay Silverheels, a Mohawk actor, becomes the first Native American to have a star commemorated in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. · 1979
  
• The start of the four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War. · 1977
  
• Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA. · 1976
  
• In Lillehammer, Norway, Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre. · 1973
  
• The Troubles: Bloody Friday: The Provisional IRA detonate 22 bombs in central Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom in the space of 80 minutes, killing nine and injuring 130. · 1972
  
• After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed. · 1970
  
• Apollo program: At 02:56 UTC, astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon, followed 19 minutes later by Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin. · 1969
  
• A series of racial riots break out in Singapore. In the next six weeks, 23 die with 454 others injured. · 1964
  
• Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 mission: Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission). · 1961
  
• Alaska Airlines Flight 779 crashes near Shemya Air Force Base in Shemya, Alaska, killing six. · 1961
  
• Sirimavo Bandaranaike is sworn in as prime minister of Ceylon, becoming the world's first democratically elected female head of government. · 1960
  
• NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" initiative. · 1959
  
• Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. He came in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2–1 loss to the Chicago White Sox. · 1959
  
• First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam. · 1954
  
• The 7.3 Mw Kern County earthquake strikes Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 12 and injuring hundreds. · 1952
  
• Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 3505 disappears while flying from Vancouver to Tokyo. The aircraft and its 37 occupants are never found. · 1951