Boeing unveiled its first 787 in a roll-out ceremony at its Everett assembly factory.

Allen Lee Davis is executed by electric chair by the state of Florida, the last use of the electric chair for capital punishment in Florida.

NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999.

A schizophrenic man armed with a machete wounds three children and four adults at a primary school in Wolverhampton, England. Teacher Lisa Potts received the George Medal for protecting her pupils, despite being severely injured.

The Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe creates the office of High Commissioner on National Minorities.

The Senegalese Trotskyist political party LCT is legally recognized.

Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail.

Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American Self-Determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination Act.

IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer.

The Municipality of General Santos was converted into a City status, named General Santos City.

King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.

Train robber Ronald Biggs escapes from Wandsworth Prison, London.

Ne Win besieges and dynamites the Rangoon University Student Union building to crash the Student Movement.

Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.

The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).

Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22.

Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.

The death of crime boss Soapy Smith (who is shot) releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.

William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetalism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.

The first issue of the ''Wall Street Journal'' is published.

Sailing ship USS Jeannette (1878) departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.

White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, SC.

The Mounties begin their March West.

Ikedaya Jiken: the Choshu Han shishi's planned Shinsengumi sabotage on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya.

King Charles XV & IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.

Commodore Perry sails into Tokyo Bay.

Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.

The Declaration of Independence is read aloud in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Liberty Bell is rung.

The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies.

French and Indian War: Battle of Restigouche

French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York.

Great Northern War: the naval Battle of Dynekilen takes place.

Great Northern War: Battle of Poltava

The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island.

''Our Lady of Kazan'', a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, is discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.

Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India.

War of the Sicilian Vespers: the naval Battle of Malta between the Aragonese and the Neapolitan fleets is fought.

First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in a religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.