The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.

NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program.

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina.

Funeral service takes place for those executed at Bykivnia forest, outside Kiev, Ukraine. 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s are reburied.

Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.

An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan.

289 people are killed and 265 injured in Baku Metro fire, the deadliest subway disaster.

The centenary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty is celebrated in New York Harbor.

Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party wins elections, leading to first Socialist government in Spain after death of Franco. Felipe Gonzalez becomes Prime Minister-elect.

Britain launches its first satellite, Prospero, into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket.

Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.

Construction on the St. Louis Arch is completed.

''Nostra Aetate'', the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions" of the Second Vatican Council, is promulgated by Pope Paul VI; it absolves the Jews of responsibility for the death of Jesus, reversing Innocent III's 760 year-old declaration.

Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam.

Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.

The modern Kingdom of the Netherlands is re-founded as a federal monarchy.

Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.

The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.

World War II: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through Albania, marking Greece's entry into World War II.

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.

Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.

March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.

The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.

New Polish government in Western Galicia is established.

World War I: Czechoslovakia is granted independence from Austria-Hungary marking the beginning of independent Czechoslovak state, after 300 years.

Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, ''Pathétique'', receives its première performance in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer's death.

The Mino-Owari Earthquake, the largest earthquake in Japan's history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.

In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.

First porcelain toilet is built

American Civil War: Second Battle of Fair Oaks ends – Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia.

The first railroad in Spain

The Battle of Pinjarra is fought in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.

American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains

American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston.

The 1707 Hōei earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths in Honshu, Shikoku and Kyūshū, Japan

The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.

A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.

The Siege of La Rochelle, which had lasted for 14 months, ends with the surrender of the Huguenots.

The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.

Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia falls under Imam Ahmad's control.

Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza.

Empress Agnes, acting as Regent for her son, brings about the election of Bishop Cadalus, the Antipope Honorius II.

Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman Emperor.

Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor.

Emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard, to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.