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A gas leak caused an explosion that collapsed a building and led to the deaths of 22 people in Rosario, Argentina.
A series of riots broke out in several London boroughs and in cities and towns across England in response to the shooting of Mark Duggan by Metropolitan Police officers.
Flash floods, mudslides, and debris flows across the Ladakh region of Indian-administered Kashmir left at least 255 people dead.
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A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.
NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.
Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.
A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
Erwadi fire incident: Twenty-eight mentally ill persons tied to a chain are burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam, killing 229 of the 254 people on board.
NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW makes its first appearance as a publicly available service on the Internet.
Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
Law of Permanent Defense of Democracy, outlawing the Communist Party of Chile and banning 26,650 persons from the electoral lists, is repealed in Chile.
After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.
World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
Estonia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
First public screening using the Vitaphone process
World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins.
World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
World War I: U-boat campaign: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a German victory.
Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Wörth results in a decisive German victory.
American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Britain imposes the Lagos Treaty of Cession to suppress slavery in what is now Nigeria.
The Bolivian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.
Peruvian War of Independence: Patriot forces led by Simón Bolívar defeat the Spanish Royalist army in the Battle of Junín.
Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares the moribund empire to be dissolved, although he retains power in the Austrian Empire.
Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi is officially appointed kampaku (Imperial Regent).
Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.
The Ummayad forces suffer a decisive defeat against the pro-Alid forces under Ibrahim ibn al-Ashtar in the battle of Khazir.