The United States Navy guided missile cruiser {{USS|Port Royal|CG-73|6}} runs aground off Oahu, Hawaii, damaging the ship as well as a coral reef.

A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States leaves 57 dead, the most since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 88.

Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.

Twenty-three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England. Twenty-one bodies are recovered.

The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.

During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell slams into a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.

Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.

Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.

The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.

Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh begins.

French President Charles De Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.

A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.

Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.

The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea.

World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.

The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".

Australian cricketer Bill Ponsford makes 429 runs to break the world record for the highest first-class score.

Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.

SS Tuscania (1914) is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland, it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.

Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.

The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. Also known as the ''Asiatic Barred Zone Act'', it forbade immigration from nearly all of south and southeast Asia.

The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.

Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis performed the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.

The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal

King Léopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.

Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.

In Calabria a sequence of strong earthquakes begins

Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.

South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.

The claimant King Charles II of England and Scotland is declared King of Scotland, by the Parliament of Scotland. This move was not followed by the Parliament of England or the Parliament of Ireland.

Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.

A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.

Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.

Earthquake in Pompeii Italy