Person report

★20 Sep 1920
Irish War of Independence: British police officers known as Black and Tans went on a rampage in Balbriggan as revenge for the shooting of two officers.

★16 Apr 1947
American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch first described the post–World War II tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States as a "cold war".

★30 Sep 1955
American film actor James Dean suffered fatal injuries in a head-on car accident near Cholame, California.

★27 May 1958
The F-4 Phantom II, the principal air superiority jet fighter for both the U.S. Navy and Air Force, made its first flight.

★14 Jul 1958
Faisal II, the last king of Iraq, was overthrown by a military coup d'état led by Abd al-Karim Qasim.

★30 Jan 1959
On the return leg of her maiden voyage, the "unsinkable" Danish ocean liner Hans Hedtoft hit an iceberg and sank with all 95 passengers and crew lost.

★31 Dec 1963
Despite Prime Minister Roy Welensky's efforts, the Central African Federation officially collapsed, subsequently becoming three separate nations: Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.

★29 Jun 1974
Isabel Perón was sworn in as the first female President of Argentina, replacing her ill husband Juan Perón, who died two days later.

★04 May 1988
A fire at an industrial plant in Henderson, Nevada, U.S., caused tons of Space Shuttle fuel to explode, resulting in two deaths, 372 injuries, and $100 million in damage.

★27 Nov 1989
A bomb placed by the Medellín Cartel in an attempt to kill Colombian presidential candidate César Gaviria destroyed Avianca Flight 203, killing 110 people, but Gaviria was not on the flight.

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