| 1959 | TAI Flight 307 crashes during takeoff from Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport in Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, killing 55 people. |
| 1960 | USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched. |
| 1972 | Japan Airlines Flight 472 lands at Juhu Aerodrome instead of Santacruz Airport in Bombay, India. |
| 1973 | Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal. |
| 1975 | Southwest Face expedition members become the first persons to reach the summit of Mount Everest by any of its faces, instead of using a ridge route. |
| 1993 | The Cambodian monarchy is restored, with Norodom Sihanouk as king. |
| 1996 | Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations. |
| 2005 | Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating portions of southwestern Louisiana and extreme southeastern Texas. |
| 2007 | Between 30,000 and 100,000 people take part in an
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