At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery ever, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or 78€ million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.

Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.

In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.

The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.

Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.

Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.

Mohd saleem akhtar khan was born.

The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.

Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3, in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.

Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.

Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.

Organisation of the Islamic Conferencesummit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.

Cold War: Following United States President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.

The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.

Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.

Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.

Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survived a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot.

Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.

World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.

World War II: Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.

World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.

U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.

World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.

The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by {{USS|Connecticut|BB-18|2}}, returns to the United States after a voyage around the world.

The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.

President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.

The Serbian kingdom is refounded.

In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.

Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.

The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania)

Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.

Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista

By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.

The Last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.

War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.

Galileo's ''Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems'' is published.

King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.