War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.

The Harris Theater opens, commencing a renaissance in the Chicago performing arts community.

Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441

Remembrance Day Bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.

Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.

A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.

The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD.

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.

Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate.

The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Vietcong at the Battle of Gang Toi.

The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.

Operation Grapple X, Round C1: Britain conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.

Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.

World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyst generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.

World War II: Operation Torch

The Albanian Communist Party is founded.

In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.

Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.

The Nazi exhibition ''Der ewige Jude'' ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.

A dozen labor leaders come together to announce the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), an organization charged with advancing industrial unionism.

Great Depression: New Deal

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected the 32d President of the United States defeating Herbert Hoover.

Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.

The People's Commissars give authority to Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin.

Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.

While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.

The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.

Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.

American Civil War: The "Trent Affair" – The USS San Jacinto stops the United Kingdom mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.

Mary Lyon founds ''Mount Holyoke Female Seminary,'' which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.

In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opens the Louvre to the public as a museum.

Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of

The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.

The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public.

Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent

Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people.

Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.