Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.

U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.

Mars Odyssey is launched.

The World Trade Organisation rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.

Auburn Calloway attempts to hijack FedEx Flight 705 and crash it to insure his family with his life insurance policy. The crew subdues him and lands the aircraft safely.

Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.

Republika Srpska announces its independence.

Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).

Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.

During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.

Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.

German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.

Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.

President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.

The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.

IBM announces the System/360.

Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a Socialist republic and Josip Broz Tito is named President for life.

Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.

A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.

The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.

Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.

World War II: The Japanese battleship ''Yamato'', the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en-route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.

World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.

Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead and buried in ditches.

Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.

World War II: Italy invades Albania.

Prohibition is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.

First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C. to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).

Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.

H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman

The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.

Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.

Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.

Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician.

American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh ends – the Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee.

Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.

John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.

Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.

The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.

France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length.

American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country.

Captain John Barry and the {{USS|Lexington|1776|6}} captures the ''Edward''.

Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.

Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.

Charles University is founded in Prague.

First draft of the ''Corpus Juris Civilis'' (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.