Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.

SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.

A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.

Section 28 (outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.

John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

In handing down the decision in ''Miller v. California'' 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test for obscenity in U.S. law.

Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Ellen Louks Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister.

The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.

Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.

World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the United States mainland.

World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.

The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia.

Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.

The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in ''Guinn v. United States'' 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.

The United States captures Guam from Spain.

The Kiel Canal is officially opened.

The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants convicted of murder, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.

New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.

The first Victoria Cross is awarded during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands.

Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.

Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.

Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria.

Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.

New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the 9th state in the United States.

James Otis, Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.

In Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is put to death, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city.

Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.

The Incident at Honnō-ji takes place in Kyoto, Japan.

Külüg Khan enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan.

Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce.