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** Birmingham Airport, UK ( opened 1984, closed 1995 )
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** Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth and others are arrested in a Birmingham, Alabama protest for " parading without a permit ".
** Thousands of African Americans, many of them children, are arrested while protesting segregation in Birmingham, Alabama.
** John Henry Newman founds the first Oratory in the English-speaking world when he establishes the Birmingham Oratory at ' Maryvale ', Old Oscott, England.
** After 16 years in prison for allegedly bombing a public house in a Provisional Irish Republican Army attack, the " Birmingham Six " are freed when a court determines that the police fabricated evidence.
** The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement – Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin
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** TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes at Madeira Airport, Funchal, Portugal, killing 131 and leaving 33 survivors.
** The Beatles arrive from England at New York City's JFK International Airport, receiving a tumultuous reception from a throng of screaming fans, marking the first occurrence of " Beatlemania " in the United States.
** Korean Air Flight 801 crash lands west of Guam International Airport, resulting in the deaths of 228 people.
** Leeds Bradford International Airport is opened as Leeds and Bradford Municipal Aerodrome in England.
** Avianca Flight 52 crashes into Cove Neck, Long Island, after a miscommunication between the flight crew and JFK Airport officials, killing 73 people on board.
** At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 ( a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 ) collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 ( a Boeing 727 ) on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crewmembers on Flight 1482.
** An Aeroperú Boeing 757 crashes into the Pacific Ocean when the instruments fail just after takeoff from Lima Airport, killing all 70 on board.
** Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831, a Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes into a wooded hillside after taking-off from Dorval International Airport near Montreal, killing all on board ( the worst air disaster for many years in Canada's history ).
** Entebbe Raid: Israeli airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian hijackers of an Air France plane at Uganda's Entebbe Airport ; 1 Israeli soldier and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in the raid.
** China General Aviation Flight 7552 bound for Xiamen crashes soon after taking off from Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport, killing 108 of the 116 people on board.
** Staines air disaster: 118 die when a Trident 1 jet airliner crashes 2 minutes after take off from London Heathrow Airport.
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