2004 Australian embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.

Pärnu methanol tragedy occurs in Pärnu County, Estonia.

Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.

The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.

Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.

1990 Batticaloa massacre, massacre of 184 minority Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan Army in the eastern Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka.

The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.

A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.

Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashes near Fairland, Indiana.

The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages.

The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.

Elvis Presley appears on ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' for the first time.

Republic Day of Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.

Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China.

World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.

World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.

World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Oregon.

George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.

The U.S. National Broadcasting Company is formed.

Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.

Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks.

World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.

The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.

American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.

The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.

California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.

John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.

Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of Baltic provinces.

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.

The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.

Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain's mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.

Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.

James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden Field, ending Scotland's involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.

Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire.

Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.

Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.

Arminius' alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.