Japanese military base seized by Mishima Yukio
On this day in 1970, Japanese novelist Mishima Yukio and four members of his Shield Society, a private army formed to preserve Japan‘s martial spirit, seized a military headquarters in Tokyo, and he later committed seppuku. 1970.
Argentine football (soccer) star Diego Maradona—who was considered one of the greatest footballers of all time, known for such memorable plays as the “Hand of God” goal in the 1986 World Cup—died at age 60. 2020.
Cuban political leader Fidel Castro, who transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere and became a symbol of communist revolution in Latin America, died at age 90. 2016.
Irish-born football (soccer) player George Best, who was one of the premier forwards in the game’s history and an iconic figure of “Swinging London” during the 1960s, died in London. 2005.
Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer chose Los Alamos, New Mexico, as the site of Project Y, which developed the first atomic bomb. 1942.
Suriname gained its independence from the Netherlands. 1975.
