Person report

★19 Mar 1962
Highly influential American musician Bob Dylan released his eponymous debut album.

★08 Mar 1963
The Ba'ath Party came to power in Syria in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.

★30 Apr 1963
The Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews led to a bus boycott in Bristol, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.

★27 Jan 1965
South Vietnamese prime minister Trần Văn Hương was removed by the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh.

★12 Nov 1970
The Oregon Highway Division unsuccessfully attempted to destroy a rotting beached sperm whale near Florence, Oregon, with explosives.

★12 Dec 1985
Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashed after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, killing 256, including 248 members of the US Army's 101st Airborne Division.

★28 Aug 1987
Construction on the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, the tallest structure in North Korea, began.

★05 Nov 1990
Ultra-Zionist rabbi Meir Kahane was assassinated in a New York City hotel by an Arab gunman.

★19 Nov 1991
Luis Miguel's album, Romance, was released and led to the revival of bolero music.

★05 May 1992
The 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified 202 years after it was proposed.

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