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A U.S. Army Reserve veteran ambushed and shot at police officers (memorial service pictured) in Dallas, killing five of them and injuring nine others, before being killed by a bomb attached to a police robot.
Yugoslav Wars: The signing of the Brioni Agreement ended the Ten-Day War between SFR Yugoslavia and Slovenia.
After writing a letter to Soviet premier Yuri Andropov, American schoolgirl Samantha Smith visited the Soviet Union as Andropov's personal guest, becoming known as "America's Youngest Ambassador".
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Boris Johnson announces his resignation as leader of the Conservative Party following days of pressure from the Members of Parliament (MPs) during the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis.
Haitian crisis: Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is assassinated in his residence in the capital of Port-au-Prince.
The United States defeated the Netherlands 2–0 at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup final in Lyon, France.
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted with 122 countries voting in favour.
Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen, killing five of them, in downtown Dallas, Texas at the end of a protest of recent police killings of Black men. He is subsequently killed by a robot-delivered bomb.
A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.
At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.
A man goes on a killing spree in Grand Rapids, Michigan, killing 7 and wounding 2 before killing himself.
The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world.
A shootout happens in Spiritwood, Canada, killing 2 Royal Canadian Mounted Police and wounding a 3rd officer.
A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others.
NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.
The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.
Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Boris Becker becomes the youngest male player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17.
Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
US President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Institution of sharia law in Iran.
During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.
The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
Buddhist crisis: Police commanded by Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest.
Alitalia Flight 771 crashes in Junnar, Maharashtra, India, killing 94 people.
Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.
Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
The US occupation of Iceland replaces the UK's occupation.
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (Lugou Bridge) provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War (China-Japan War).
The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.
Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
The Finnish far-right Lapua Movement organises the Peasant March demonstration in Helsinki to put pressure on the government to prohibit communist activities.
Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.
The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
The luxury raching yacht Idler capsizes and sinks on Lake Erie during a storm, drowning six of its seven passengers (all members of the family of Cleveland businessman James C. Corrigan).
US president William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution, annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.
Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
US troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the US conquest of California.
In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
The first Treaty of Tilsit between France and Russia is signed, ending hostilities between the two countries in the War of the Fourth Coalition.
As a result of the XYZ Affair, the US Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the "Quasi-War".
American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.
An English fleet completes the destruction of a French merchant fleet off Fort St Pierre, Martinique during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
The Raid of the Redeswire is the last major battle between England and Scotland.
Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada.
Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.
A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution.
The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.