Eastman Kodak Company announces that it will discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon.

Washington Metro train collision: Two Metro trains collide in Washington, D.C., USA, killing 9 and injuring over 80.

The largest hailstone ever recorded falls in Aurora, Nebraska

An earthquake measuring 6.5 M_w strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slowness of the victims receiving aid and supplies.

Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.

Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport.

Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered by American astronomer James Christy.

The Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.

The Cuyahoga River catches fire, which triggers a crack-down on pollution in the river.

An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing 113.

The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar).

World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when organised resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.

Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.

Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.

Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group.

Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. The Soviet 22 June Song is dedicated to this day.

The June Uprising in Lithuania begins.

France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany.

Herrin massacre: 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.

The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.

George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.

The flag of Sweden is adopted.

Spanish-American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.

British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.

The Royal Navy battleship {{HMS|Camperdown|1885|6}} accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship {{HMS|Victoria|1887|6}} which sinks taking 358 crew with her including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.

Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris.

North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University.

The British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.

In the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake.

A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.

The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.

Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Turks.