Valencia metro accident leaves 43 dead in Valencia, Spain.

Asteroid 2004 XP14 flies within {{convert|432308|km|mi}} of Earth.

A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev Tu-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people.

Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland.

The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Forty-six people are killed in crashes.

The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus.

United States Navy warship {{USS|Vincennes|CG-49|6}} shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.

U.S. President Ronald Reagan presides over the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.

First mention in the ''New York Times'' of a disease that would later be called AIDS

U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.

The Senegalese Republican Movement is founded.

The Troubles: the "Falls Curfew" begins in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.

The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends.

The {{SS|United States}} sets sail on her maiden voyage to Southampton. During the voyage, the ship takes the Blue Riband away from the {{RMS|Queen Mary}}.

The Constitution of Puerto Rico is approved by the Congress of the United States.

World War II: Minsk is liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration.

World War II: the French fleet of the Atlantic based at Mers el Kébir, is bombarded by the British fleet, coming from Gibraltar, causing the loss of three battleships: Dunkerque, Provence and Bretagne. One thousand two hundred sailors perish.

World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the ''Mallard'', which reaches a speed of {{convert|126|mph|km/h}}.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.

Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.

Spanish-American War: The Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is destroyed by the U.S. Navy in Santiago, Cuba.

Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.

The ''New York Tribune'' becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.

Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen

Dow Jones and Company publishes its first stock average.

Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.

American Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett's Charge.

Congress establishes the United States' 2nd mint in San Francisco, California.

The French enter Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification.

Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) by Peter von Scholten in the culmination of a year-long plot by enslaved Africans.

The last pair of Great Auks is killed.

The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State College, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with 3 students.

The Bank of Savings in New York City, the first savings bank in the United States, opens.

American Revolutionary War: British forces kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.

American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published.

Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.

French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.

Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.

Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France till the French Revolution in 1792.

Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.