The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with Good Night.

Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.

Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d’état in Afghanistan.

An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.

In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, killing around one thousand people.

A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.

Vietnam War: The Battle of An L?c begins.

A suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda Market, killing seven people and wounding 104.

Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.

Ping-pong diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a week-long visit.