The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause.

Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.

The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.

Brokerage houses are ordered to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for their price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.

The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.

Stari most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.

Mary Robinson is elected Ireland's first female President and the first from the Labour Party.

New democratic constitution is issued in Nepal.

Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. This key event led to the eventual reunification of East and West Germany.

Garry Kasparov 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.

Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert is cancelled.

Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.

Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.

First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published.

Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.

Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.

At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning. Also, in Japan, a three-train disaster occurs in Yokohama, kills more than 160 people.

Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he quit to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration.

Cambodia becomes independent from France.

Junagadh is annexed as to Indian military intervention.

Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan is founded.

Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.

Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.

Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.

The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.

Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60.

In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.

Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.

Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia.

SMS ''Emden'' sunk by {{HMAS|Sydney|1912|6}} in the Battle of Cocos.

The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.

The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.

Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.

Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.

The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

The Great Boston Fire of 1872.

Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.

American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.

The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, University of Toronto.

The Atlantic founded in Boston.

Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.

Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna.

Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup d'état of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government).

William Carey reaches the Hooghly River.

Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.

Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.

Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.

The synagogue of Yehudah he-Hasid is burned down by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.

Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.

The Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.

Pilgrims aboard the ''Mayflower'' sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath

The Family de' Medici were expelled from Florence.

Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.

Ulrich II of Celje (Slovene: Ulrik Celjski, German Ulrich von Cilli, Hungarian: Cillei Ulrik), last prince of Celje principality, was assassinated in Belgrade.

Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush

Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.

Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.

Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.