Karachi bombings: attempted assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.

Azerbaijan declares independence from USSR.

East German leader Erich Honecker resigns.

German Autumn: a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide.

Bob Beamon sets a world record of 8.90 m in the long jump at the Mexico City games.

The U.S. Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving a "black power" salute during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games.

The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.

The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes for its first season after a six-month run.

Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.

A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, staged a coup d'état against then president Isaías Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day.

The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Adolf Hitler orders the public funeral procession of Nazi field Marshall Erwin Rommel, commander of the Deutsches Afrika Korps

Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia.

Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of a German national militia.

Adolf Hitler announces the Four Year Economic Plan to the German people. The plan details the rebuilding of the German military from 1936 to 1940.

Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.

The Grand Ole Opry opens in Nashville, Tennessee.

The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.

The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the RSFSR.

The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.

The First Balkan War begins.

United States takes possession of Puerto Rico.

United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.

The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.

Herman Melville's ''Moby-Dick'' is first published as ''The Whale'' by Richard Bentley of London.

African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.

Mason-Dixon line, survey separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.

Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.

Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization.

Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia, defeats the Army of Andrew Bathory in the Battle of Şelimbăr, leading to the first recorded unification of the Romanian people.

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Opening of the University of Heidelberg

Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroyed the town of Basel, Switzerland.

Pope Innocent III excommunicates German leader Otto IV.

The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.

The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Ashingdon.

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.