162 people a killed in a nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines.

Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.

Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud in the Iran-Contra Affair.

British journalist Farzad Bazoft is hung for spying in Iraq

The Gold Standard Act is ratified which places United States currency on the gold standard.

German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków during the ‘holocaust’

Coca-Cola is sold for the first time by Joseph Biedenharn.

Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, lead to the death 191 people.

300,000 Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama’s palace to prevent his removal by the Chinese army.

42 are killed in the Cavalese cable-car disaster.