Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Khalifa and a new terminal of Dubai International Airport riot causing $1M in damage.

In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of ''Wall Street Journal'' reporter Daniel Pearl.

Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.

In a Tel Aviv, Israel coffee shop, a suicide bomber kills 3 and injures 49.

Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.

''Sports Illustrated'' reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.

Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.

On the season finale of the soap opera ''Dallas'', the infamous character J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant, leading to the catchphrase "Who shot J.R.?"

US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.

Vinko Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany; his image becomes that of the "agony of defeat guy" in the opening credits of ''ABC's Wide World of Sports''.

The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.

Battle of Karameh in Jordan between Israeli Defense Forces and Fatah.

Martin Luther King Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.

In Copenhagen, Denmark, Gigliola Cinquetti wins the ninth Eurovision Song Contest for Italy singing "Non ho l'età" ("I'm not old enough").

Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.

Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.

Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.

World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.

Ponce Massacre: 18 people and a 7-year-old girl in Ponce, Puerto Rico, are gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed PR Governor, Blanton C. Winship.

Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans.'

Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi Germany concentration camp, is completed.

Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.

The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.

World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.

Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.

Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.

Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.

Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated

An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000.

The original date predicted by William Miller for the return of Christ.

The Bahá'í calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bahá'í Faith as the Bahá'í New Year or Náw-Rúz.

First revolutionary act in Monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta, Greek War of Independence.

Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law.

The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.

With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.

A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.

In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.

Henry V becomes King of England.

Accession to the throne of Japan by emperor Antoku.

Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.