Lebanon War: At least 28 civilians, including 16 children are killed by the Israeli Air Force in what Lebanese call the Second Qana massacre and what Israel considers to be an attempt to stop rockets' being fired, from Lebanon, at Israeli civilian targets.

The world's longest running music show ''Top of the Pops'' is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.

In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.

Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law

Vanuatu gains independence.

The 730 (transport), Okinawa changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.

The Troubles: three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland (see Miami Showband killings).

Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again, and will be declared legally dead on this date in 1982.

Six Royal Canadian Army Cadets are killed and fifty-four are injured in an accidental grenade blast at CFB Valcartier Cadet Camp.

Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court.

An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162.

Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission – David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module module ''Falcon'' land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.

Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.

A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing ''In God We Trust'' as the U.S. national motto.

World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the {{USS|Indianapolis|CA-35|6}}, killing 883 seamen.

Premiere of Walt Disney's ''Flowers and Trees'', the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.

In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first Football World Cup.

Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, New Jersey.

The Staten Island Ferry ''Westfield'''s boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.

New Orleans's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.

American Civil War: Battle of the Crater

Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, agreeing to stop the harassment of emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.

First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.

Malden Island is discovered by captain George Anson Byron.

Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Mexico.

In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.

The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.

Foundation of Baltimore, Maryland.

An earthquake in Naples, Italy, kills about 10,000 people.

In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.

At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.

Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.

First Defenestration of Prague: a crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.

Baghdad is founded by caliph Al-Mansur.