David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.

Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by Sri Lankan Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil school children.

An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.

A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.

A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. 47 passengers are killed.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.

Iraq invades Iran.

The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.

Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.

The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also known as the Second Kashmir War) between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire.

The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.

In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.

World War II: the Red Army enters Tallinn.

World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.

Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.

Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.

An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.

Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.

The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.

The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.

The independence of Bulgaria is proclaimed.

Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.

The first American-made automobile, built by the Duryea Brothers, is displayed.

The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.

Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule.

Richard Wagner's opera ''Das Rheingold'' premieres in Munich.

Battle of Curupaity in the War of the Triple Alliance.

Slavery in the United States: a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.

The city of Des Moines, Iowa is incorporated as Fort Des Moines.

Joseph Smith, Jr. claims that he was directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where the Golden plates were buried.

''Primidi Vendémiaire'' of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar.

Battle of Rymnik establishes Alexander Suvorov as a pre-eminent Russian military commander after his allied army defeat superior Ottoman Empire forces.

The office of United States Postmaster General is established.

Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.

Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.

George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Last people hanged for witchcraft in Britain's North American colonies.

Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter.

Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over England and Dutch.

Treaty of Basel: Switzerland becomes an independent state.

The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.

Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.