The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.

The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.

Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India.

Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.

The Troubles: the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) open fire inside a pub in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland, killing six civilians and wounding five.

A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984-1985 UK miners' strike.

Mona Mahmudnizhad together with nine other Bahá'í women, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran because of her Bahá'í Faith.

Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.

A disease cluster, which will later be known as AIDS, is recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California.

SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.

Staines air disaster

Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.

Governor of Louisiana Earl Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane.

Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France.

A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tokyo, Japan killing 129.

The Republic of Egypt is declared and the monarchy is abolished.

Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.

William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) is charged with treason.

Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle.

"Finest Hour" speech by Winston Churchill.

Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held.

Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).

Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.

The University of the Philippines is established.

Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.

Empress Dowager Longyu of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.

The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.

Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.

First ascent of Aletschhorn, second summit of the Bernese Alps.

Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.

French invasion of Algeria

Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington forcing him to abdicate the throne of France for the second and last time.

War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom.

American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.

Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War.

French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeat the main English army under sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. This turns the tide of the Hundred Years' War.

The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.

Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of metres) are a result of this collision.

Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang Dynasty rule over China.