The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved.

After having closed borders for about two hundred years, Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders.

The 10 October 2008 Orakzai bombing kills 110 and injures 200 more.

The Greek city of Volos floods in one of the prefecture's worst recorded floods.

A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.

An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.

An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.

United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the ''Achille Lauro'' cruise ship hijackers and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested.

Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.

Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion.

Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.

In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.

Fiji becomes independent.

The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, comes into force.

The opening ceremony at The 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary communication satellite.

France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.

The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world's first major nuclear accident.

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.

The Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang signed a principle agreement in Chongqing about the future of post-war China. Later, the pact is commonly referred to as the Double-Ten Agreement.

Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp.

Double Tenth Incident in Japanese controlled Singapore

The Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with Australia.

The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.

A coup d'état by the royalist leadership of the Greek Armed Forces takes place in Athens. It overthrows the government of Panagis Tsaldaris and establishes a regency under Georgios Kondylis, effectively ending the Second Hellenic Republic.

United Airlines Chesterton Crash: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.

The Carinthian Plebiscite determines that the larger part of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.

President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.

The KCR East Rail commences service between Kowloon and Canton.

The Wuchang Uprising leads to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last Imperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China.

Carlos Céspedes issues the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba's independence

The original cornerstone of the University of the South is laid in Sewanee, Tennessee.

In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors.

The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in the Caribbean.

A Saxon army takes over Prague.

Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.

After a three-day siege, the English Army beheads over 600 Irish and Papal soldiers and civilians at Dún an Óir, Ireland.

Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.

Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm: Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by Christian I, King of Denmark.

Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, the leader of the Franks, Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe. The governor of Cordoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, is killed during the battle.

Battle of Karbala: Hussain bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Muslims as Aashurah.