The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.

The 70-metre Eupatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message (Cosmic Call 2) to 5 stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris (HD 95128). The messages will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044 and 2049 respectively.

U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by a fellow soldier, Calvin Glover, for his relationship with transgender showgirl and former Navy Corpsman Calpernia Addams.

Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport is closed and the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok becomes operational.

The Israeli 405 Bus slaughter in which 14 bus passengers are killed when an Arab assaulted the bus driver as the bus was driving by the edge of a cliff.

The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. 167 oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster.

Davis Phinney became the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France.

The Taunton sleeping car fire occurs in Taunton, Somerset killing twelve people.

The Comoros declare independence from France.

Biafran War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war.

Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President.

Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.

As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place.

John Lennon meets Paul McCartney at a fete in Woolton.

Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.

The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.

The Hartford Circus Fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.

2LT Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court martial.

Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.

Holocaust: the last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed.

A major breach of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading {{convert|200|ft|m}} into the River Irwell.

The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeats the National League 4–2.

The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.

World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.

Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.

The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200.

3,800 striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving 10 dead and dozens wounded.

Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.

David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint, at the hands of the Americans, to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.

Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.

In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the United States Republican Party is held.

The second day of the Battle of Wagram sees a French victory over the Austrian army in the largest battle yet of the Napoleonic Wars.

Battle of Algeciras: the French navy are defeated by the Royal Navy.

The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States.

American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Ticonderoga (1777)|Siege of Fort Ticonderoga

Pope Benedict XIV suppresses the Patriarchate of Aquileia and establishes from its territory the Archdiocese of Udine and Gorizia.

Thirty-Years War: 4,000 Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Pomerania, Germany.

Bohemia is granted freedom of religion.

Córdoba, Argentina, is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.

The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England.

Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England.

First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo

Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.

Richard III is crowned King of England.

Jan Hus is burned at the stake.

Papal bull of Pope Clement VI protecting the Jews accused to have caused the Black Death.

Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania.

Richard I "the Lionheart" is crowned King of England.

The Battle of Ménfő between troops led by Emperor Henry III and Magyar forces led by King Samuel takes place.