SWAT teams members raid the YFZ Ranch in Eldorado, Texas after getting a call claiming underage marriages and child abuse were going on inside the ranch.

ATA Airlines, once one of the 10 largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in 5 years and ceases all operations.

Conventional-Train World Speed Record: a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.

Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.

United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.

The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.

A United States Air Force airplane carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashes in Croatia, killing all 35 on board.

Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his cabin in Montana, United States.

The United Kingdom sends a naval task force to the south Atlantic to reclaim the disputed Falkland Islands from Argentina.

Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.

The Super Outbreak occurs, the biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history. The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.

The first portable cell phone call is made in New York City, United States.

Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.

Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.

Hudsonville-Standale Tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.

The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book ''Howl'' against obscenity charges.

President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.

In Jeju, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins, known as the Jeju massacre.

Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.

World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.

Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh II, the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.

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Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Vladimir Lenin arrives in Russia from exile, marking the beginning of Bolshevik leadership in the Russian Revolution.

Trial of the libel case instigated by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.

The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.

Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.

American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.

American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.

The first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins.

The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.

The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis treaty is signed, ending the Italian Wars.

The first Parliament of Friuli is created.

Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.