The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a third time.

A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.

Two 14-year-old South Korean girls are struck and killed by a United States Army armored vehicle, leading to months of public protests against the US.

The United States of America withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.

President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.

American fugitive Ira Einhorn is arrested in France for the murder of Holly Maddux after 16 years on the run, though he would not return for another four years.

Uphaar cinema fire, in New Delhi, India, killed 59 people, and over 100 people injured.

A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.

French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.

A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the ''Exxon Valdez'' disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.

''Pioneer 10'' becomes the first man-made object to leave the solar system.

Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.

At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.

Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.

Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.

Vietnam War: ''The New York Times'' begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.

"The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song.

Governor of Texas Preston Smith signs a bill into law converting the former Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, originally founded as a research arm of Texas Instruments, into the University of Texas at Dallas.

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

The United States Supreme Court rules in ''Miranda v. Arizona'' that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.

Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered.

Catalina affair: a Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.

World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.

World War II: Germany launches a counter attack on Carentan.

The United States establish the Office of Strategic Services.

The United States opens its Office of War Information.

In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, the 10 to 1 underdog James J. Braddock defeats Max Baer in Long Island City, New York, and becomes the heavyweight champion of the world.

Adolf Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as "a silly little monkey".

Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.

World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.

The University of the Philippines College of Engineering is established. This unit of the university is said to be the largest degree granting unit in the Philippines.

Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.

Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.

King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM.

A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.

The USS ''Jeannette'' is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.

In Labrador, a hurricane kills 300 people.

Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.

Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded.

American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.

Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.

King Charles I marries Henrietta Maria of France, Princess of France

Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.

Anglo-Portuguese Alliance between England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal is the oldest alliance in the world which is still in force.

Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots.