Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malé.

The Kolka-Karmadon rock/ice slide.

In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror".

The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by a Russian-built Mark 22 anti-tank missile.

South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.

A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.

The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.

A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I.

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.

Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas.

Syrian tanks roll into Jordan in response to continued fighting between Jordan and the fedayeen.

{{RMS|Queen Elizabeth 2||}} is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland. It is operated by the Cunard Line.

James Meredith, an African-American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.

New Zealand's Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents reports just ten days after concluding hearings.

The first Cannes Film Festival is held.

Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days the German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews.

Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.

Foundation of the Spanish Legion.

Cunard Line's {{RMS|Mauretania|1906|6}} is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

The first gasoline-powered car debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.

Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States following the assassination of James Garfield.

Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. He is the first bishop of Melanesia.

''Bersaglieri'' corps enter Rome through the ''Porta Pia'' and complete the unification of Italy.

American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga ends.

The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States.

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.

Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.

Farroupilha's Revolution begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

French troops stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalition at Valmy.

The finish of the Walking Purchase which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.

The Treaty of Rijswijk is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic ending the Nine Years' War (1688–97).

Galileo Galilei is tried before the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun.

Diego de Montemayor founds the city of Monterrey in New Spain.

Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.

Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the Butcher of Cesena, is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.

the Great Prussian Uprising among the old Prussians begins against the Teutonic Knights.

Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.

The Battle of Châlons takes place in North Eastern France. Flavius Aetius's victory over Attila the Hun in a day of combat, is considered to be the largest battle in the ancient world.