The construction of the world's first building to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain.

Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Ontario, Canada. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos motorcycle gang.

Darfur conflict: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups.

Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress.

The Republic of Macedonia joins the United Nations.

Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.

Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racially charged remarks he had made while on ''Nightline''.

Bhopal disaster: India files suit against Union Carbide for the disaster which killed an estimated 2,000 and injured another 200,000.

Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.

at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run to surpass Babe Ruth's 39-year-old record.

Bahr el-Baqar incident: Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school. 46 children are killed.

BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after take off. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.

A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collided with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.

Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya's British rulers.

U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.

India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat-Nehru Pact.

The last meeting of the League of Nations, the precursor of the United Nations, is held.

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.

World War II: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines.

World War II: Siege of Leningrad

World War II: The United Kingdom and France announce that they have mined Norwegian territorial waters to prevent their use by German supply ships.

The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.

Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.

World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district.

In Corona, California, race car driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three, and badly injuring five, spectators.

The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.

Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.

Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.

Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after ''The New York Times''.

British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of ''The Book of the Law''.

The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the ''Entente cordiale''.

In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.

The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.

William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.

Italy and Prussia ally against Austrian Empire.

American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield

Black Hawk War: Around three-hundred United States 6th Infantry troops leave St. Louis, Missouri to fight the Sauk Native Americans.

The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baltimore is promoted to an archdiocese, with the founding of the dioceses of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Bardstown (now Louisville) by Pope Pius VII.

Ayutthaya kingdom falls to Burmese invaders.

Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.

Explorer Juan Ponce de León declares Florida a territory of Spain.

In Syria, sultan Baybars conquers the Krak of Chevaliers.

Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Ptolemy II of Tusculum.

Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated.

The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by Walkelin.

Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.