A Palestinian gunman shoots and kills 8 students and critically injures 11 in the library of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, in Jerusalem, Israel.

Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice.

South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signs legislation banning most abortions in the state.

Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.

Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.

The British ferry {{MS|Herald of Free Enterprise}} capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.

The first United States Football League game is played.

After 19 years of presenting the ''CBS Evening News'', Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.

Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.

For the first time, ever, the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy was shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.

Blast at Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.

Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.

Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.

Constantine II becomes King of Greece.

Nation of Islam's Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.

United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana.

Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.

Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.

Cologne is captured by American Troops.

Communist-dominated government under Petru Groza assumes power in Romania.

Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.

Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.

Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.

Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.

Giuseppe Verdi's opera ''La Traviata'' receives its premiere performance in Venice.

Baltimore College of Dental Surgery Opened, the first Dental school.

Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo

York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.

The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, but makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.

The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.

Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.

Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.