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Iraqi authorities hanged Iranian freelance reporter Farzad Bazoft on charges of spying for Israel.
Transvestism and Transsexualism in Modern Society, the UK's first trans-rights conference, opened with an evening reception in Leeds.
Students from the Atlanta University Center, inspired by similar actions in Greensboro, North Carolina, began occupying lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.
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The 2022 Sri Lankan protests begins amidst Sri Lanka's economic collapse.
Fifty-one people are killed in the Christchurch mosque shootings.
Beginning of the 2019â20 Hong Kong protests.
Approximately 1.4 million young people in 123 countries go on strike to protest climate change.
Beginning of the Syrian revolution.
Stockpiles of obsolete ammunition explode at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of GĂ«rdec, Albania, killing 26 people.
Cold War: The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany comes into effect, granting full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany.
Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first and only President of the Soviet Union.
Collapse of Hotel New World: Thirty-three people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses.
Somalia and Ethiopia sign a truce to end the Ethio-Somali War.
Fifteen people are killed when Sterling Airways Flight 901, a Sud Aviation Caravelle, catches fire following a landing gear collapse at Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran, Iran.
President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells the U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
At the 1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, South Africa announces that it will withdraw from the Commonwealth when the South African Constitution of 1961 comes into effect.
The Iranian oil industry is nationalized.
World War II: Third Battle of Kharkiv: The Germans retake the city of Kharkiv from the Soviet armies.
Germany occupies Czechoslovakia.
Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic, but is annexed by Hungary the next day.
The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.
After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian genocide, is assassinated in Berlin by a 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian.
Ukrainian War of Independence: The Kontrrazvedka is established as the counterintelligence division of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine.
The American Legion is founded.
Finnish Civil War: The battle of Tampere begins.
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne, ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.
The first parliamentary elections of Finland (at the time the Grand Duchy of Finland) are held.
Madeleine bombing by DĂ©sirĂ© Pauwels during the Ăre des attentats.
The Lobau bombing is one of the first attacks of the Ăre des attentats (1892-1894).
Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia.
Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States.
France and Vietnam sign the Second Treaty of Saigon, further recognizing the full sovereignty of France over Cochinchina.
A revolution breaks out in Hungary, and the Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the reform party.
Sailor Benjamin Morrell erroneously reports the existence of the island of New South Greenland near Antarctica.
Maine is admitted as the twenty-third U.S. state.
In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful, and the threatened coup d'Ă©tat never takes place.
King Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence, granting limited religious freedom to all Christians.
A dam failure causes the sudden flooding of the mining city of PotosĂ in present-day Bolivia leading to the death of thousands and the massive release of toxic mercury into the environment.
Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes the jizya tax on non-Muslim subjects.
Treaty of Lublowa: After the Peace of Thorn, Grand Master Heinrich von Plauen asks Sigismund of Hungary for economic aid. Sigismund agrees to mediate reduction to the third installment, demarcation of the Samogitian border, and other matters with a grand tournament. Hunts and lavish feasts were also organized. Sigismund invited, among others, polish king Wladyslaw Jagiello, Heinrich von Plauen and bosnian king Tvrtko II. There were people from 17 countries and languages - 40.000 nobles and 2000 knights were present from all over Europe, even England.
Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V, Count of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
After a ten-year truce, German King Henry the Fowler defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.
Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya enters Sa'dah and founds the Zaydi Imamate of Yemen.
Michael III, emperor of the Byzantine Empire, overthrows the regency of his mother, empress Theodora (wife of Theophilos) with support of the Byzantine nobility.
Odoacer, the first barbarian King of Italy after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, is slain by Theoderic the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, while the two kings were feasting together.
Constantius Gallus is elevated as Caesar and then sent to Antioch to govern the Roman East.
The assassination of Julius Caesar, the dictator of the Roman Republic, by a group of senators takes place on the Ides of March.
The Roman Republic under its new consuls Publius Sulpicius Galba and Gaius Aurelius Cotta declares war on Philip V of Macedon, starting the Second Macedonian War.
Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce.