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Syrian civil war: The U.S. Air Force carried out an airstrike in al-Baghuz Fawqani, killing as many as 80, a disputed number of whom were civilians.
Gunmen attacked the Bardo National Museum in Tunisia, killing 24 people.
As per a court order, the feeding tube of Terri Schiavo, an American woman who suffered brain damage, was removed at the request of her husband, fueling a worldwide debate on euthanasia.
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Israel launches widespread aerial bombardments and attacks on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 591 people, including children.
The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. Twenty-four people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded.
The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey, causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board.
A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.
Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people.
Güzel İstanbul, a nude sculpture by Gürdal Duyar in Istanbul is torn down in the middle of the night.
Peru: A landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar.
Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
United Arab Airlines Flight 749 crashes on approach to Cairo International Airport in Cairo, Egypt, killing 30 people.
Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
The Hawaii Admission Act is signed into law.
An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing at least 1,070 people.
Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the Tito–Stalin split.
40th Infantry Division, spearheaded by the 185th US Infantry Regiment, landed unopposed in Tigbauan forcing the Japanese forces to surrender and General Macario Peralta and Gen. Gen. Eichelberger to declare the Liberation of Panay, Romblon and Guimaras.
Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupts, killing 26 people, causing thousands to flee their homes, and destroying dozens of Allied bombers.
The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
World War II: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.
The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
The 1925 Tri-State tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience, of which he serves only two.
The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.
The Kronstadt rebellion is suppressed by the Red Army.
Mongolian Revolution of 1921: The Mongolian People's Army defeated local Chinese forces at Altanbulag, Selenge (then known as Maimachen). This battle was seen as the birthday of the People's Army and completed the expulsion of Chinese militants in Mongolia.
World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
The Kumasi Mutiny of 1901 begins.
Phoebe, a satellite of Saturn, becomes the first to be discovered with photographs, taken in August 1898, by William Henry Pickering.
The Hawaiian Kingdom signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.
Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.
American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
The premiere of Fry's Leonora in Philadelphia is the first known performance of a grand opera by an American composer.
Revolutions of 1848: A rebellion arose in Milan which in five days of street fighting drove Marshal Radetzky and his Austrian soldiers from the city.
Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
The first modern republic in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
Flanders Campaign of the French Revolution, Battle of Neerwinden.
American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
English lord John Berkeley sold his half of New Jersey to the Quakers
The Third Anglo-Powhatan War begins in the Colony of Virginia.
Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
Valletta is made the capital city of Malta.
Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of the Romans.
Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and final Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares himself King of Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade.
An earthquake in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula leaves up to 20,000 dead.
Pope Zosimus is elected following the death of pope Innocent I.
Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (aka Caligula = Little Boots) emperor.