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The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
📜 CITIES🌍 UNITED STATES
Art museum in New York City

The Colfax massacre: More than 60 to 150 black men are murdered in Colfax
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL
1873 murder of black men by white militia in Colfax, Louisiana

The 31 March Incident leads to the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 GLOBAL
1909 political crisis in the Ottoman Empire
Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British Indian Army troops led by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer kill approximately 379–1
📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 INDIA
1919 massacre of Indian protesters


A pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
📜 WARS🌍 JAPAN
1941 non-aggression agreement between the USSR and Imperial Japan

The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES
National memorial in Washington, D.C.

World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced
📜 HISTORY🌍 GERMANY
1939–1945 global conflict
World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna.
📜 ECONOMY🌍 GLOBAL
Country in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991
CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES
U.S. intelligence and covert action agency



At 10:08 PM EST an oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 Service Module explodes
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL
Chemical element with atomic number 8 (O)

Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.
📜 WARS🌍 UNITED STATES
War in Southeast Asia from 1955 to 1975
The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People’s Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 CHINA
Specialized agency of the United Nations

An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
📜 WARS🌍 GLOBAL
1975 armed clashes between Phalangist and Palestinian organizations in Beirut, Lebanon
Forty workers die in the Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion
📜 HISTORY🌍 GLOBAL
1976 explosion at a munitions factory in Finland