The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.

The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.

Japan's worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.

Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years of service.

An earthquake hits India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) in Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.

President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti is forced from office.

The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.

Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel's covert nuclear program to British media, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy by the Israeli Mossad.

Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all.

Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.

The Hong Kong MTR commences service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).

Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.

The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.

Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.

Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.

The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.

BBC Radio 1 is launched and Tony Blackburn presents its first show; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names.

The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.

The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.

General Suharto rises to power after an alleged coup by the Communist Party of Indonesia. In response, Suharto and his army massacre over a million Indonesians suspected of being communists.

James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.

Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers.

Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.

The U.S. Navy submarine {{USS|Nautilus|SSN-571|6}} is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.

The Berlin Airlift ends.

The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.

The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43

World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre.

General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.

The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".

At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.

Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.

McKinley National Memorial, final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, dedicated in Canton, Ohio.

The Real Academia Galega, Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in Havana.

The new Gresham's School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.

Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner.

Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.

Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.

The world's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.

Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.

Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.

The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as "incorruptible patriots".

''The Magic Flute'', the last opera composed by Mozart, receives its premiere performance at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.

France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.

Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.