Terrorist bombs explode on the Samjhauta Express in Panipat, Haryana, India, killing 68 people.

Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Neyshabur in Iran when a run-away freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes.

Comet C/2002 V1 (NEAT) makes perihelion, seen by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.

Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.

Dale Earnhardt dies in an accident in the final turn of the final lap of the Daytona 500.

FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Two white separatists are arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a biological attack on New York City subways.

The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at Paddington station and Victoria station in London.

Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee Massacre in Seattle, Washington. It is said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in U.S. history.

Snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history.

The Space Shuttle ''Enterprise'' test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.

The California Supreme Court in the case of ''People v. Anderson'', 6 Cal.3d 628 invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.

The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 crashes into Mount Whitney killing all on board.

The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.

Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots of the Teapot series.

The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California.

Eamon de Valera resigns as Taoiseach of Ireland.

Joseph Goebbels delivers his ''Sportpalast'' speech.

The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.

The Empire of Japan declares Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) independent from the Republic of China.

While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.

Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.

The first Academy Awards are announced.

Raymond Poincaré becomes President of France.

The first official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about {{Convert|10|km|mi}} away.

Edouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.

Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the House of Commons.

Mark Twain's ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' is published for the first time.

John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jessie Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.

Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.

Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia.

With the Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy.

In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.

The ''Know-Nothings'' convene in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate their first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore.

Beginning of the Galician peasant revolt.

The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate begins and lasts until March 11.

Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Montereau.

Trinidad is surrendered to a British fleet under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby.

The city of Surakarta, Central Java is founded on the banks of Bengawan Solo River, and becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Surakarta.

Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.

George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London.

Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces.

The Livonian Brothers of the Sword are defeated by Dovmont of Pskov in the Battle of Rakvere.

The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.