Air France Flight 358, landed at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and ran off the runway causing the plane to burst into flames. There were 12 serious injuries and no fatalities.

Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.

Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restoring democracy for the first time since 1972.

A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.

Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.

A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.

A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.

An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.

Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin Incident

World War II: the Potsdam Conference, at which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, is concluded.

ASNOM: birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.

Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.

World War II: the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer ''Amagiri'' and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew.

Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan project to develop a nuclear weapon.

The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.

Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.

The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.

A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China killing more than 50,000 people.

Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.

World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship ''Leonardo da Vinci'' in Taranto.

Fall of the Ottoman Empire: an unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, takes place.

Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.

Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinōkōshō) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).

French Revolutionary Wars: the Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.

The first US Census is conducted.

Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.

Russian troops are defeated in the Battle on Pyana River because of drunkenness.