Today in People History (Part 4)
Events 301 - 400 of 594
1978-07-06 - The Taunton sleeping car fire occurred in Taunton, Somerset killing twelve people.
1978-10-06 - Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person
1978-10-31 - People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South) adopts constitution
1978-11-29 - UN observes "international day of solidarity with Palestinian people," boycotted by US & about 20 other countries
1979-01-01 - US & China (Peoples Republic) begin diplomatic relations
1979-01-06 - The Village People's Y.M.C.A becomes their only UK No.1 single. At it's peak it sold over 150,000 copies a day
1979-01-13 - YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song
1979-02-03 - "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart
1979-03-08 - 5th People's Choice Awards
1979-04-08 - People's Republic of China joins IOC
1979-04-10 - Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
1979-04-18 - "Real People" premieres on NBC TV
1979-05-19 - "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3
1979-06-01 - 33rd NBA Championship: Sea Supersonics beat Wash Bullets, 4 games to 1
1979-08-06 - Marcus Hooper, 12, is youngest person to swim English Channel
1979-09-21 - Two RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier jump-jets from RAF Wittering collide over the UK. Both pilots ejected safely. One of the jets broke up in midair and fell harmlessly into a field but the other dropped onto the centre of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, destroying two houses and a bungalow. Several people were injured in the accident and three people were killed.
1980-05-27 - South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed
1981-01-31 - 38th Golden Globes: Ordinary People, Coal Miner's Daughter
1981-02-14 - Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people
1981-02-23 - People mag features drug ordeal of Mackenzie & Papa John Phillips
1981-02-24 - An earthquake registering 6.7 on the Richter scale hits Athens, killing 16 people and destroying buildings in several towns west of the city.
1981-03-31 - 53rd Academy Awards - "Ordinary People," R De Niro & Sissy Spacek win
1981-05-23 - Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage
1981-09-07 - Judge Wapner & People's Court premier on TV
1982-02-02 - Hama Massacre: The government of Syria attacks the town of Hama and kills thousands of people.
1982-02-05 - DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people
1982-10-20 - During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.
1982-10-27 - China announces its population at 1 billion people plus
1982-12-07 - In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the US.
1983-02-16 - The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 75 people in Australia's worst ever fires.
1983-03-01 - Tornado tears through LA, injuring 33 people
1983-03-17 - 9th People's Choice Awards
1983-03-31 - Earthquake in Colombia kills some 5,000 people
1983-04-28 - Argentine government declares all 15-30,000 missing persons dead
1983-05-16 - Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government.
1983-10-23 - Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 243 US personnel in Beirut
1983-12-09 - Att Gen Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "...because food is free & that's easier than paying for it"
1983-12-16 - Spokesperson for The Who announces the group is disbanding
1983-12-17 - The IRA bombs Harrods Department Store in London, killing six people.
1984-02-08 - 1st time 8 people in space
Model & Actress Brooke Shields 1984-03-15 - 10th People's Choice Awards: Brooke Shields
1984-04-06 - 1st time 11 people in space
1984-12-19 - Fire at Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people
1985-02-17 - 3rd person to receive an artificial heart (Murray Haydon)
1985-03-14 - 11th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins 4 awards
1985-05-11 - Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India
1985-07-19 - The Val di Stava Dam collapse killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
1986-02-22 - Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
1986-02-26 - People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
1986-03-11 - 12th People's Choice Awards
1986-05-25 - Hands Across America - 6 million people hold hands from California to NY
1986-08-23 - Vrijkomend vulkaangas kills 1500 people in Nyos-more, Cameroon
1986-10-12 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China
1987-03-15 - 13th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby
1987-07-31 - A rare, class F-4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage.
Queen Elizabeth II 1987-08-01 - Nurse Mary R Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America
1987-08-19 - Hungerford Massacre: in the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide.
1987-10-16 - Great Storm of 1987: hurricane force winds to hit much of the South of England killing 23 people.
1988-03-13 - 14th People's Choice Awards: Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby. win
1988-03-20 - Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
1988-07-31 - 32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia.
1989-03-12 - 15th People's Choice Awards
1989-03-22 - US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of NYC Board of Estimate
1989-09-20 - USAir overshoots runway at LaGuardia Airport in NYC, 2 people die
1990-03-11 - 16th People's Choice Awards
1990-09-27 - Gunman holds 33 people (killing 1) hostage in Berkeley Calif
1990-11-13 - In Aramoana, New Zealand, Resident David Gray shot dead 13 people, in what became known as the Aramoana Massacre.
1990-12-02 - 1st time 12 people in space
1991-01-22 - Gulf War. Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people die of heart attacks.
1991-02-11 - UNPO, Unrepresented Nations & People Org forms in Hague Neth
Actress Julia Roberts 1991-03-08 - 17th People's Choice Awards: Julia Roberts, Bill Cosby, Pretty Woman
1991-03-30 - Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "Vr˜e Folk" (Free People)
1991-05-25 - "People Are Still Having Sex," by LaTour hits #35
1991-09-28 - "Shiny Happy People" by REM peaks to #10
1991-12-01 - Ukrainian people vote for independence
1992-02-06 - The Saami people of the Nordic countries have an official day celebrating their existence.
1992-03-17 - 18th People's Choice Awards: Garth Brooks & Reba McEntire
1992-05-13 - Li Hongzhi gave the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.
1992-07-11 - Pres candidate Ross Perot at NAACP speech calls them "you people"
1992-08-24 - Diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and South Korea.
1993-01-25 - Five people were shot outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders.
1993-02-10 - "Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey" airs on ABC & drew an astounding 39.3 rating/56 share, 90 million people
1993-03-09 - 19th People's Choice Awards
1993-03-27 - Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
1993-05-13 - 6th annual business person run held in Wall Street
King of Pop Michael Jackson 1993-05-18 - Danish people vote in favor of ratifying the Maastricht Treaty
1993-10-31 - 25 people killed during Ghana-Ivory Coast soccer match
1993-12-07 - The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
1994-03-08 - 20th People's Choice Awards
1994-04-19 - Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender
1994-05-02 - in Poland bus disaster 32 people died.
1994-05-08 - Pres Clinton announces US will no longer repatriate boat people
1994-05-08 - Erling Kagge becomes the first person to complete the Three Poles Challenge.
1994-06-11 - Drunken officer shoots 7 people dead in Falun Sweden
1994-07-03 - The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Forty six people were killed in crashes.
1994-07-05 - US changes refugee policy, by sending Haitian boat people back
1994-07-29 - H Emans Arubaanse Peoples Party wins parliamentary election
1994-09-28 - 909 people died when an Estonian ferry capsized & sank in Baltic sea
1995-02-15 - Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion
1995-02-17 - Colin Fergusson found guilty of killing 6 people on the LIRR in NY
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