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• 1931 CE1931 Fuyun earthquakeThe 1931 Fuyun earthquake (富蕴地震) occurred on August 10 at 21:18 UTC. The epicenter was near Fuyun County of…
• 1931 CE1931 Hawke's Bay earthquakeThe 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, also known as the Napier earthquake, occurred in New Zealand at 10:47 am on…
• 1931 CE1931 Nicaragua earthquakeThe 1931 Nicaragua earthquake devastated Nicaragua's capital city of Managua on 31 March 1931. It had a…
• 1931 CE1931 Valentine earthquakeIn the early morning hours of August 16, 1931, a powerful earthquake occurred in West Texas with a maximum…
• 1931 CE1931 Zangezur earthquakeThe 1931 Zangezur earthquake occurred on April 27 at 20:50:45 local time with a moment magnitude of 6.5. The…
• 1932 CE1932 Ierissos earthquakeThe 1932 Ierissos earthquake occurred at 19:20 on 26 September. It caused severe damage in Ierissos, Greece…
• 1932 CE1932 Jalisco earthquakeThe 1932 Jalisco earthquakes began on June 3 at 10:36 UTC with a megathrust event that registered 8.1 on the…
• 1932 CE1932 Salvadoran peasant massacreLa Matanza (Spanish for 'The Massacre') refers to a communist-indigenous rebellion that took place in El…
• 1933 CE1933 Baffin Bay earthquakeThe 1933 Baffin Bay earthquake struck Greenland and the Northwest Territories (now Nunavut), Canada with a…
• 1933 CE1933 Diexi earthquakeThe 1933 Diexi earthquake occurred in Diexi, Mao County, Sichuan, Republic of China on August 25 with a…
• 1933 CE1933 Dublin riotThe 1933 Dublin riot, also known as the siege of Connolly House, was a multi-night anti-communist riot that…
• 1933 CE1933 Long Beach earthquakeThe 1933 Long Beach earthquake took place on March 10 at 5:54 P.M. PST south of downtown Los Angeles. The…
• 1933 CE1933 Sanriku earthquakeThe 1933 Sanriku earthquake (昭和三陸地震, Shōwa Sanriku Jishin) occurred on the Sanriku coast of the Tōhoku region…
• 1934 CE1934 Bihar earthquakeThe 1934 Nepal–India earthquake or 1934 Bihar–Nepal earthquake was one of the worst earthquakes in India's…
• 1934 CE1934 Bolivian coup d'étatThe 1934 Bolivian coup d'état, colloquially known as the Corralito of Villamontes (Spanish: Corralito de…
• 1934 CE1934 Constantine PogromThe 1934 Constantine riots were an incident of antisemitic violence in the Algerian city of Constantine…
• 1934 CE1934 Nanga Parbat Climbing DisasterThe 1934 Nanga Parbat climbing disaster resulted in the loss of 10 lives on Nanga Parbat, the world's…
• 1935 CE1935 Hsinchu-Taichung earthquakeThe 1935 Shinchiku-Taichū earthquake occurred with a Richter magnitude of 7.1 (7.1 Mw) in April 1935 with its…
• 1935 CE1935 Quetta earthquakeAn earthquake occurred on 31 May 1935 between 2:30 am and 3:40 am at Quetta, Baluchistan Agency (now part of…
• 1935 CE1935 Timiskaming earthquakeThe 1935 Temiskamingue earthquake occurred on November 1 with a moment magnitude of 6.1 and a maximum…
• 1936 CE1936 Cansiglio earthquakeThe 1936 Cansiglio earthquake occurred on 18 October in the region between the provinces of Belluno, Treviso…
• 1936 CE1936 Miyagi earthquakeAn earthquake occurred on November 3 at 05:45 local time with a magnitude Ms 7.2, or MJMA 7.4. The epicenter…
• 1936 CE1936 Summer Olympics opening ceremonyThe Opening Ceremony of the 1936 Summer Olympics was the official opening ceremony held on August 1, 1936, at…
• 1936 CE1936 uprising in Spanish GuineaThe 1936 uprising in Spanish Guinea was an armed conflict over the control of Spanish Guinea (present-day…
• 1937 CE1937 Fox vault fireA major fire occurred in a 20th Century-Fox film-storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey, United States…
• 1938 CE1938 Banda Sea earthquakeThe 1938 Banda Sea earthquake occurred on February 2 at 04:04 local time with an estimated magnitude of…
• 1938 CE1938 Tiberias pogromThe Tiberias massacre took place on 2 October 1938, during the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Tiberias, then located…
• 1938 CE1938 al-Bassa massacreThe al-Bassa massacre was an incident that took place on September 6, 1938, in the Palestinian village of…
• 1939 CE1939 Chillán earthquakeThe 1939 Chillán earthquake occurred in south-central Chile on 24 January with a surface-wave magnitude of…
• 1939 CE1939 New York World's FairThe 1939 New York World's Fair (also known as the 1939–1940 New York World's Fair) was an international…
• 1939 CE1939 Oga earthquakeThe 1939 Oga earthquake (Japanese: 男鹿地震) struck Akita Prefecture, Japan on May 1, 1939. This event was a…
• 1939 CE1939 conclaveA conclave was held on 1 and 2 March 1939 to elect a new pope to succeed Pius XI, who had died on 10…
• 1940 CE1940 Shakotan earthquakeThe 1940 Shakotan earthquake occurred on August 2 at 00:08:22 JST with a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.5 and…
• 1940 CE1940 Vrancea earthquakeThe 1940 Vrancea earthquake, also known as the 1940 Bucharest earthquake, (Romanian: Cutremurul din 1940)…
• 1941 CE1941 Andaman Islands earthquakeThe 1941 Andaman Islands earthquake struck the Andaman Islands on June 26 with a magnitude of 7.7 to 8.1.…
• 1941 CE1941 Białystok massacres1941 Białystok massacres refers to the series of pogroms and mass executions committed by the Ordnungspolizei…
• 1941 CE1941 Colima earthquakeThe 1941 Colima earthquake occurred on April 15 at 19:09 UTC (13:09 local time). The epicenter was located in…
• 1941 CE1941 Odessa massacreThe Odessa massacre was the mass murder of the Jewish population of Odessa and surrounding towns in the…
• 1941 CE1941 Santander fireThe Santander fire of 1941 was a natural disaster that occurred in the Spanish city of Santander during the…
• 1942 CE1942 Phoenix Thanksgiving Day riotOn November 26, 1942, a riot occurred in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, involving United States Army…
• 1943 CE1943 Central Java earthquakeThe 1943 Central Java earthquake occurred on July 23 at 14:53:10 UTC with a moment magnitude of 7.4 near…
• 1943 CE1943 Detroit race riotA race riot took place in Detroit, Michigan, from the evening of June 20 through to the early morning of June…
• 1943 CE1943 Tottori earthquakeThe Tottori earthquake (鳥取地震, Tottori jishin) occurred in Tottori prefecture, Japan at 17:36 local time on…
• 1944 CE1944 Cornwall-Massena earthquakeThe 1944 Cornwall–Massena earthquake occurred on September 5 at 12:38:45 am EDT in Massena, New York. It…
• 1944 CE1944 San Juan EarthquakeThe 1944 San Juan earthquake took place on 15 January in the province of San Juan, in the center-west area of…
• 1944 CE1944 Tōnankai earthquakeThe 1944 Tōnankai earthquake occurred at 13:35 local time (04:35 UTC) on 7 December. It had an estimated…
• 1945 CE1945 Balochistan earthquakeThe 1945 Balochistan earthquake (Balochi: 1945 بلۏچستان ڈگار جنز, romanized: 1945 Balochistan ḍagar janz…
• 1945 CE1945 Mikawa earthquakeThe 1945 Mikawa earthquake (三河地震, Mikawa jishin) occurred off Aichi prefecture, Japan at 03:38 AM on January…
• 1946 CE1946 Aleutian Islands earthquakeThe 1946 Aleutian Islands earthquake occurred near the Aleutian Islands, Alaska on April 1, 1946. The shock…
• 1946 CE1946 Chatkal earthquakeOn November 2 of 1946, west Kyrgyzstan (then the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union) was…
• 1946 CE1946 Dominican Republic earthquakeThe 1946 Dominican Republic earthquake occurred on August 4 at 13:51 AST near Samaná, Dominican Republic. It…
• 1946 CE1946 Nankai earthquakeThe 1946 Nankai earthquake (昭和南海地震 Shōwa Nankai jishin) was a great earthquake in Nankaidō, Japan. It…
• 1946 CE1946 Varto-Hınıs earthquakeThe 1946 Varto–Hınıs earthquake occurred at 05:12:46 local time on 31 May. The earthquake had an estimated…
• 1946 CE1946 earthquake in SwitzerlandThe 1946 Valais earthquake struck on 25 January at 17:32 local time with an epicenter region in Sierre, near…
• 1947 CE1947 Jerusalem riotsThe 1947 Jerusalem Riots were a series of riots which occurred following the vote in the UN General Assembly…
• 1947 CE1947–1948 Rajouri massacreAfter the Partition of India, during October–November 1947 in the Jammu region of the princely state of Jammu…
• 1948 CE1948 Ashgabat earthquakeThe 1948 Ashgabat earthquake was on 6 October with a surface-wave magnitude of 7.3 and a maximum Mercalli…
• 1948 CE1948 Donora smogThe 1948 Donora smog, also called the Donora death fog, was an air pollution disaster that occurred in…
• 1948 CE1948 Fukui earthquakeThe 1948 Fukui earthquake (福井地震, Fukui jishin) occurred in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. The magnitude 6.8 quake…
• 1948 CE1948 Oujda and Jerada Anti-Jewish pogromAnti-Jewish riots occurred on June 7–8, 1948, in the towns of Oujda and Jerada, in the French protectorate of…
• 1948 CE1948 Palestinian exodus from Lydda and RamleIn July 1948, during the 1948 Palestine war, the Palestinian towns of Lydda (also known as Lod) and Ramle…
• 1948 CE1948 Salta earthquakeThe 1948 Salta earthquake took place in the Argentinian province of Salta on 25 August at 03:09:28 local time…
• 1949 CE1949 Al-Menashe synagogue attack in DamascusThe Menarsha synagogue attack took place on 5 August 1949 in the Jewish quarter of Damascus, Syria. The…
• 1949 CE1949 Khait earthquakeThe 1949 Khait earthquake (Russian: Хаитское землетрясение 1949 года; Tajik: Заминларзаи Ҳоит 1949) occurred…
• 1949 CE1949 Pelileo earthquakeA magnitude 6.4 Ms earthquake struck Ecuador's Tungurahua Province southeast of its capital Ambato and killed…
• 1949 CE1949 Queen Charlotte Islands earthquakeThe 1949 Queen Charlotte Islands earthquake struck Haida Gwaii (at the time known as the Queen Charlotte…
• 1949 CE1949 Sault-au-Cochon air tragedyCanadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 108, known as the Sault-au-Cochon Tragedy, was a Douglas DC-3 operated by…
• 1949 CE1949 Tierra del Fuego earthquakeThe 1949 Tierra del Fuego earthquakes occurred slightly more than eight hours apart on 17 December. Their…
• 1950 CE1950 Assam–Tibet earthquakeThe 1950 Assam–Tibet earthquake, also known as the Assam earthquake, occurred on 15 August and had a moment…
• 1950 CE1950 French Annapurna expeditionThe 1950 French Annapurna expedition, led by Maurice Herzog, reached the summit of Annapurna I at 8,091…
• 1952 CE1952 Kern County earthquakeThe 1952 Kern County earthquake occurred on July 21 in the southern San Joaquin Valley and measured 7.3 on…
• 1952 CE1952 San Juan earthquakeThe 1952 San Juan earthquake took place on 11 June at 00:31:43 UTC in the province of San Juan, Argentina. It…
• 1952 CE1952 Severo-Kurilsk tsunamiThe 1952 Severo-Kurilsk earthquake struck off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The Mw 8.8–9.0 earthquake…
• 1952 CE1952 Tokachi earthquakeThe 1952 Tokachi earthquake (Japanese: 1952年十勝沖地震), occurred at 10:22:41 local time on 4 March in the sea…
• 1953 CE1953 Ionian EarthquakeThe 1953 Ionian earthquake (also known as the Great Kefalonia earthquake) struck the southern Ionian Islands…
• 1953 CE1953 Kano riotThe Kano riot of 1953 was a 4-day clash over the issue of Nigerian independence which broke out in the city…
• 1953 CE1953 North Kyushu FloodThe 1953 North Kyushu flood was a flood which hit Northern Kyushu, Japan (Fukuoka Prefecture, Saga…
• 1953 CE1953 Paphos earthquakeThe 1953 Paphos earthquake struck British Cyprus (present day Cyprus) on the morning of 10 September, at…
• 1953 CE1953 Trieste riotsThe Trieste riots, traditionally called the Revolt of the flag (Italian: Rivolta della bandiera) of November…
• 1954 CE1954 Adelaide earthquakeThe 1954 Adelaide earthquake had its epicentre at Darlington, a suburb of the city of Adelaide in South…
• 1954 CE1954 Chlef earthquakeThe 1954 Chlef earthquake struck El Asnam Province in French Algeria on 9 September at 02:04:43 local time.…
• 1954 CE1954-1955 Dhabyani coup attemptFrom 1954 to 1955 two princes of the house of Al Nahyan; Zayed and Diab, received Saudi backing to stage a…
• 1955 CE1955 Alexandria earthquakeThe 1955 Alexandria earthquake occurred on September 12 at 06:09 UTC. The epicenter was located in the…
• 1955 CE1955 Hunter Valley floodsThe Hunter Valley Floods (also known as the Maitland Flood) of 23 February 1955 was a major flood on the…
• 1956 CE1956 Amorgos earthquakeThe 1956 Amorgos earthquake occurred at 03:11 UTC on July 9. It had a magnitude of 7.7 on the moment…
• 1956 CE1956 Chhim earthquakeThe 1956 Chim earthquake was a destructive multiple-shock event that occurred on March 16 in Lebanon along a…
• 1956 CE1956 Georgian demonstrationsThe 1956 Georgian demonstrations (Georgian: 1956 წლის საპროტესტო გამოსვლები) were a series of protests…
• 1956 CE1956 Nicaragua earthquakeThe 1956 Nicaragua earthquake occurred on October 24 at 14:42 UTC. The epicenter was located west of…
• 1956 CE1956 Sagaing earthquakeThe 1956 Sagaing earthquake occurred on July 16, 1956, at 15:07 UTC. The earthquake was located near Sagaing…
• 1956 CE1956 Yahiko Shrine StampedeJust after midnight in the morning of 1 January 1956 a human crowd crush and stampede at the Yahiko Shrine in…
• 1957 CE1957 Andreanof Islands earthquakeThe 1957 Andreanof Islands earthquake occurred at 04:22 local time on March 9 with a moment magnitude…
• 1957 CE1957 Farsinaj earthquakeAn earthquake struck Hamadan province, Iran on 13 December 1957 at 05:15. The moment magnitude 6.5 earthquake…
• 1957 CE1957 Guerrero earthquakeThe 1957 Guerrero earthquake occurred on 28 July at 08:40 UTC. It had a magnitude of 7.6 Mw and a maximum…
• 1957 CE1957 Mongolia earthquakeAn earthquake occurred in southern Mongolia on December 4, 1957, measuring Mw 7.8–8.1 and assigned XII…
• 1957 CE1957 Sangchal earthquakeThe 1957 Alborz earthquake struck northern Iran's Mazandaran province at 04:12 on 2 July. It had a moment…
• 1957 CE1957 Valencia floodA flood on 14 October 1957 in Valencia, Spain, resulted in significant damage to property and caused the…
• 1957 CE1957 alleged Jordanian military coup attemptThe 1957 alleged Jordanian military coup attempt refers to violent confrontations on 13 April 1957 at the…
• 1958 CE1958 Ecuador-Colombia earthquakeThe 1958 Ecuador–Colombia earthquake struck the coastal regions of Ecuador and Colombia on January 19 with a…
• 1958 CE1958 Lebanon crisisThe 1958 Lebanon crisis was a political crisis in Lebanon caused by political and religious tensions in the…
• 1958 CE1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunamiThe 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake occurred on July 9, 1958, at 22:15:58 PST (July 10 at 06:15:58 UTC) with a…
• 1958 CE1958 conclaveA conclave was held from 25 to 28 October 1958 to elect a pope to succeed Pius XII, who had died on 9 October…
• 1959 CE1959 Coatzacoalcos earthquakeThe 1959 Coatzacoalcos earthquake (also known as the Jáltipan earthquake) occurred at 02:25 local time on…
• 1959 CE1959 Hebgen Lake earthquakeThe 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake (also known as the 1959 Yellowstone earthquake) occurred in the western…
• 1960 CE1960 Agadir earthquakeThe 1960 Agadir earthquake occurred on 29 February at 23:40:18 Western European Time near the city of Agadir…
• 1960 CE1960 Concepción earthquakeThe 1960 Concepción earthquakes were a succession of three destructive earthquakes that happened between 21…
• 1960 CE1960 South Vietnamese coup attemptOn 11 November 1960, a failed coup attempt against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam was led by…
• 1960 CE1960 Valdivia earthquakeThe 1960 Valdivia earthquake and tsunami (Spanish: Terremoto de Valdivia) or the Great Chilean earthquake…
• 1961 CE1961 Kita Mino earthquakeThe 1961 Kita Mino earthquake (Japanese: 北美濃地震) is an earthquake that occurred on August 19, 1961, near the…
• 1961 CE1961 Kurenivka mudslide in KievThe Kurenivka mudslide occurred on 13 March 1961 in Kyiv, then a city in the Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. It…
• 1961 CE1961 Syrian coup d'étatThe Syrian coup d'état of 1961 was an uprising by disgruntled Syrian Army officers on 28 September 1961, that…
• 1961 CE1961 Vitry-Le-François train bombingThe Vitry-Le-François train bombing of 18 June 1961 was a bomb attack on a Strasbourg–Paris train carried out…
• 1962 CE1962 Buin Zahra earthquakeThe 1962 Buin Zahra earthquake (Persian: زمین‌لرزه ۱۳۴۱ بویین‌زهرا) occurred on September 1 in the area of…
• 1962 CE1962 Irpinia earthquakeThe second shock in the 1962 Irpinia earthquake sequence was the largest and most destructive in a series of…
• 1962 CE1962 Isly massacreThe 1962 Isly massacre was an incident during the Algerian War when French Army soldiers opened fire on a…
• 1962 CE1962 South Vietnamese Independence Palace bombingOn 27 February 1962, the Independence Palace in Saigon, South Vietnam, was bombed by two dissident Republic…
• 1962 CE1962 Vallés floodsThe 1962 Vallès floods took place on 25 September 1962, mainly in the comarca of Vallès Occidental and to a…
• 1963 CE1963 American Mount Everest ExpeditionOn the 1963 American Mount Everest expedition, Jim Whittaker and Sherpa Nawang Gombu reached the summit of…
• 1963 CE1963 Kuril Islands earthquakeThe 1963 Kuril Islands earthquake occurred at 05:17 UTC, on October 13. The earthquake had a moment magnitude…
• 1963 CE1963 Marj earthquakeThe 1963 Marj earthquake occurred on February 21 in northern Libya. The earthquake occurred at 18:14:36 local…
• 1963 CE1963 Skopje earthquakeThe 1963 Skopje earthquake (Macedonian: Скопски земјотрес од 1963 година) occurred in present-day North…
• 1963 CE1963 South Vietnamese coupOn November 1, 1963, President Ngô Đình Diệm and the Personalist Labor Revolutionary Party of the Republic of…
• 1963 CE1963 Togolese coup d'étatThe 1963 Togolese coup d'état was a military coup that occurred in the West African country of Togo on 13…
• 1963 CE1963 conclaveA conclave was held from 19 to 21 June 1963 to elect a new pope to succeed John XXIII, who had died on 3 June…
• 1964 CE1964 Alaska great earthquake and tsunamiThe 1964 Alaska earthquake, also known as the Great Alaska earthquake and Good Friday earthquake, occurred at…
• 1964 CE1964 Baihe earthquakeThe 1964 Baihe earthquake (Chinese: 1964年白河大地震; pinyin: 1964 nián Báihé dà dìzhèn), also known as the Great…
• 1964 CE1964 Brinks Hotel bombingThe Brinks Hotel in Saigon, also known as the Brink Bachelor Officers Quarters (BOQ), was bombed by the…
• 1964 CE1964 Mount Isa Mines StrikeThe 1964 Mount Isa Mines dispute was an Australian eight-month industrial dispute between miners and…
• 1964 CE1964 New York World's FairThe 1964 New York World's Fair (also known as the 1964–1965 New York World's Fair) was an international…
• 1964 CE1964 Niigata earthquakeThe 1964 Niigata earthquake (Japanese: 新潟地震) struck at 13:01 local time (04:01 UTC) on 16 June 1964 with a…
• 1964 CE1964 Philadelphia race riotThe Philadelphia race riot, or Columbia Avenue Riot, took place in the predominantly black neighborhoods of…
• 1965 CE1965 Algerian coup d'étatThe 1965 Algerian coup d'état, also called the Revolutionary Correction, brought Colonel Houari Boumédiène to…
• 1965 CE1965 Ceram Sea earthquakeThe 1965 Ceram Sea earthquake occurred on January 24 at 00:11 UTC with a moment magnitude of 8.2 and its…
• 1965 CE1965 Coquitlam massacreThe 1965 Coquitlam massacre was a familicide that occurred in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. Leonard…
• 1965 CE1965 La Ligua earthquakeThe 1965 La Ligua earthquake (also known as the Aconcagua earthquake) struck near La Ligua in Aconcagua…
• 1965 CE1965 Rat Islands earthquakeThe 1965 Rat Islands earthquake occurred at 05:01 UTC, on 4 February (19:01, 3 February local time). It had a…
• 1965 CE1965 Sharjawi coup d'étatIn 1965, in coordination with British officials, Khalid Al Qasimi, the cousin of the Sheikh of Sharjah, Saqr…
• 1966 CE1966 Dhabyani coup d'étatOn August 6, 1966, Zayed Al Nahyan, the younger brother of ruling Sheikh of Abu Dhabi Shakhbut Al Nahyan…
• 1966 CE1966 New York City smogThe 1966 New York City smog was a major air-pollution episode and environmental disaster, coinciding with…
• 1966 CE1966 Nigerian coup d'etatOn 15 January 1966, soldiers led by Kaduna Nzeogwu and four others carried out a military putsch, killing 22…
• 1966 CE1966 Peru earthquakeThe 1966 Peru earthquake occurred on October 17 at 16:42 local time (21:42 UTC). It had a magnitude of Mw…
• 1966 CE1966 Varto earthquakeThe 1966 Varto earthquake occurred on 19 August with a moment magnitude of 6.8 a maximum Mercalli intensity…
• 1966 CE1966 Xingtai earthquakeThe Xingtai earthquake (Chinese: 邢台大地震; pinyin: Xíngtái Dà Dìzhèn) was a sequence of major earthquakes that…
• 1966 CE1966 anti-Igbo pogromThe 1966 anti-Igbo pogroms were a series of widespread massacres and pogroms committed against Igbo…
• 1967 CE1967 Caracas earthquakeThe 1967 Caracas earthquake occurred in Venezuela on 29 July at 8:00 p.m (UTC−04:00), with its epicenter…
• 1967 CE1967 Detroit riotThe 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street Riot and the Detroit Uprising, was the bloodiest of the…
• 1967 CE1967 Koynanagar earthquakeThe 1967 Koynanagar earthquake occurred near Koynanagar town in Maharashtra, India on 11 December local time.…
• 1967 CE1967 Newark riotsThe 1967 Newark riots involved violent, armed conflict in the streets of Newark, New Jersey. Taking place…
• 1967 CE1967 Togolese coup d'étatThe 1967 Togolese coup d'état was a bloodless military coup that occurred in the West African country of Togo…
• 1967 CE1967 USS Forrestal fireOn 29 July 1967, a fire broke out on board the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal, which was engaged in combat in…
• 1968 CE1968 Aegean Sea earthquakeThe 1968 Aegean Sea earthquake was a Mw 7.0 earthquake that occurred in the early morning hours of February…
• 1968 CE1968 Belice earthquakeThe 1968 Belice earthquake (Italian: terremoto del Belice) sequence took place in Sicily between 14 and 15…
• 1968 CE1968 Casiguran earthquakeThe 1968 Casiguran earthquake occurred on 04:19:22 local time on August 2 with a moment magnitude of 7.6 and…
• 1968 CE1968 Chicago riotsThe 1968 Chicago riots, in the United States, were sparked in part by the assassination of Martin Luther King…
• 1968 CE1968 Dasht-e Bayaz earthquakeThe Dasht-e Bayaz and Ferdows earthquakes (Persian: زمین‌لرزه ۱۳۴۷ دشت بیاض و زمین لرزه فردوس) occurred in…
• 1968 CE1968 Illinois earthquakeThe U.S. Midwestern state of Illinois was struck by its largest recorded earthquake (a New Madrid event) in…
• 1968 CE1968 Inangahua earthquakeThe 1968 Inangahua earthquake struck 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Murchison, New Zealand, near the small…
• 1968 CE1968 Mauritian riotsThe 1968 Mauritian riots or Bagarre raciale Plaine Verte refers to a number of violent clashes that occurred…
• 1968 CE1968 Sulawesi earthquakeThe 1968 Sulawesi earthquake struck Indonesia on August 14. It had a Richter magnitude of 7.4, spawned a…
• 1968 CE1968 Tokachi earthquakeThe 1968 Tokachi earthquake (1968年十勝沖地震 Sen-kyūhyaku-rokujūhachi-nen Tokachi-oki Jishin) occurred on May 16…
• 1968 CE1968 Washington, D.C. riotsFollowing the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a leading African-American civil rights activist, on…
• 1969 CE1969 Banja Luka earthquakeA series of earthquakes struck Banja Luka on October 26 and 27, 1969. They began with an unusually strong…
• 1969 CE1969 Gujarat riotsThe 1969 Gujarat riots involved communal violence between Hindus and Muslims during September–October 1969…
• 1969 CE1969 Portugal earthquakeThe 1969 Portugal earthquake struck western Portugal and Morocco on 28 February at 02:40 UTC. Originating…
• 1969 CE1969 Santa Barbara oil spillThe Santa Barbara oil spill occurred in January and February 1969 in the Santa Barbara Channel, near the city…
• 1969 CE1969 Sharm el-Sheikh earthquakeThe 1969 Sharm El Sheikh earthquake occurred on March 31 off the southern Israeli-controlled Sinai Peninsula…
• 1969 CE1969 Yangjiang earthquakeThe 1969 Yangjiang earthquake occurred on 26 July, at 6:49 am, Beijing local time (25 July 22:49 UTC). It had…
• 1970 CE1970 Ancash earthquakeThe 1970 Ancash earthquake (also known as the Great Peruvian earthquake) occurred on 31 May off the coast of…
• 1970 CE1970 British Annapurna South Face expeditionThe 1970 British Annapurna South Face expedition was a Himalayan climb that was the first to take a…
• 1970 CE1970 Colombia earthquakeThe 1970 Colombia earthquake occurred in Colombia on July 31.
• 1970 CE1970 Peru-Ecuador earthquakeThe 1970 Peru–Ecuador earthquake occurred on December 9 at 23:34 local time. The epicenter was located in…
• 1970 CE1970 Tonghai earthquakeAn earthquake occurred in Tonghai, Yunnan province, China at 01:00:41 local time on 5 January 1970 with a…
• 1971 CE1971 Canberra floodThe 1971 Canberra flood was a flash flood that occurred on 26 January 1971, in the Woden Valley district of…
• 1971 CE1971 Certej dam failureThe 1971 Certej dam failure was a flood due to the failure of a tailings dam at the Certej mine which led to…
• 1971 CE1971 Ibrox disasterThe 1971 Ibrox disaster, also known as the Second Ibrox Disaster, was a crush among the crowd at an Old Firm…
• 1971 CE1971 Indian Airlines hijackingOn 30 January 1971, an Indian Airlines Fokker F27, named Ganga, flying from Srinagar to Jammu, was hijacked…
• 1971 CE1971 Newry killingsThe 1971 Newry killings was an incident during the Troubles in Newry, Northern Ireland where undercover…
• 1971 CE1971 San Fernando earthquakeThe 1971 San Fernando earthquake (also known as the 1971 Sylmar earthquake) occurred in the early morning of…
• 1971 CE1971 Scottish soldiers' killingsThe 1971 Scottish soldiers killings took place in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. On 10 March 1971, the…
• 1971 CE1971 Tuscania earthquakeThe 1971 Tuscania earthquake occurred on 6 February in Italy. It had an epicenter located halfway between…
• 1971 CE1971 in the Vietnam WarAt the start of 1971 South Vietnamese troops continued operations against the North Vietnamese People's Army…
• 1972 CE1972 Dahomeyan coup d'étatThe 1972 Dahomeyan coup d'état was a military coup staged on 26 October 1972 by Major (later General) Mathieu…
• 1972 CE1972 Donegall Street bombingOn 20 March 1972, the Provisional IRA detonated a car bomb in Lower Donegall Street in Belfast, Northern…
• 1972 CE1972 Israeli Bangkok Embassy hostage crisisThe Israeli Bangkok embassy hostage crisis occurred on 28 December 1972. It was a raid by a squad of four…
• 1972 CE1972 Nicaragua earthquakeThe 1972 Nicaragua earthquake occurred at 12:29:44 a.m. local time (06:29:44 UTC) on 23 December near…
• 1972 CE1972 Qir earthquakeThe 1972 Qir earthquake (Persian: زمین‌لرزه ۱۳۵۱ قیر و کارزین) occurred at 05:36 local time (02:06 UTC) on 10…
• 1972 CE1972 Sharjawi coup d'état attemptIn 1972, shortly after the formation of the United Arab Emirates, the former sheikh of Sharjah, Saqr Al…
• 1973 CE1973 Israeli raid on LebanonOn the night of April 9 and early morning of April 10, 1973, Israeli army special forces units attacked…
• 1973 CE1973 Luhuo earthquakeThe 1973 Luhuo earthquake struck near the town of Zhaggo in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan…
• 1973 CE1973 Nemuro earthquakeThe Nemuro-Oki (Nemuro Peninsula Offshore) earthquake (Japanese: 根室半島沖地震, Hepburn: Nemurohantō oki jishin) in…
• 1973 CE1973 Old Bailey BombingA car bomb attack was carried out by the Provisional IRA outside the Old Bailey Courthouse on 8 March 1973.…
• 1973 CE1973 Rome airport attack and hijackingIn December 1973, Fatah, a Palestinian military organization executed a series of attacks originating at…
• 1973 CE1973 Rwandan coup d'étatThe 1973 Rwandan coup d'état, also known as the Coup d'état of 5 July (French: Coup d'état du 5 Juillet), was…
• 1973 CE1973 Veracruz earthquakeThe 1973 Veracruz earthquake, also known as El Terremoto de Orizaba, occurred at 3:50 a.m. local time (9:50…
• 1974 CE1974 Beit She'an attackThe 1974 Beit She'an attack, which took place during 19 November 1974, was a raid by a squad of three…
• 1974 CE1974 Brisbane floodTropical Cyclone Wanda was a weak but very damaging tropical cyclone that caused severe flooding in…
• 1974 CE1974 French Embassy attack in The HagueThe 1974 French Embassy attack in The Hague was an attack and siege on the French Embassy in The Hague in the…
• 1974 CE1974 French Mount Everest ExpeditionOn 9 September 1974, the West Ridge Direct on Mount Everest was attempted by a French expedition. It resulted…
• 1974 CE1974 Hunza earthquakeThe 1974 Pattan earthquake occurred in the rugged and isolated Hunza, Hazara and Swat districts of northern…
• 1974 CE1974 Izu Peninsula earthquakeThe 1974 Izu Peninsula earthquake (Japanese: 1974年伊豆半島沖地震) occurred on May 9 at 08:33 local time. The…
• 1974 CE1974 Mitsubishi heavy industries explosion incidentOn 30 August 1974, a terrorist bombing of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Tokyo, Japan…