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An explosion, allegedly caused by a North Korean torpedo, sank the South Korean warship ROKS Cheonan near Baengnyeongdo in the Yellow Sea, killing 46 sailors.
A prototype of the Tesla Model S, one of the most influential electric cars in history, was unveiled.
A jury began deliberations in the trial of Jack Kevorkian, an American practitioner of physician-assisted suicide who was charged with murder in the death of a terminally ill patient.
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The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapses following a collision between the MV Dali container ship and one of the bridge's support pillars, killing 6 people.
Russia-wide anti-corruption protests in 99 cities. The Levada Center survey showed that 38% of surveyed Russians supported protests and that 67 percent held Putin personally responsible for high-level corruption.
The South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan is torpedoed, killing 46 sailors. After an international investigation, the President of the United Nations Security Council blames North Korea.
Around 200,000 to 300,000 Taiwanese demonstrate in Taipei in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of China.
During the Algerian Civil War, the Oued Bouaicha massacre sees fifty-two people, mostly infants, killed with axes and knives.
Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.
Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market.
Singapore Airlines Flight 117 is hijacked by four Pakistani terrorists and diverted to Changi Airport.
A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C.
Social Democratic Party (UK) is founded as a party.
Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel peace treaty in Washington, D.C.
An Interflug Ilyushin Il-18 crashes at Quatro de Fevereiro Airport during a rejected takeoff, killing 10.
The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.
East Pakistan, then province of Pakistan, declares its independence from Pakistan to form Bangladesh; the Bangladesh's War of Independence begins.
South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu implements a land reform program to solve the problem of land tenancy.
Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City.
The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
Pan Am Flight 845/26 ditches in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Oregon, killing four.
Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons.
World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces.
World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
Spanish Civil War: Nationalists begin their final offensive of the war.
The United Kingdom driving test is introduced.
Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam.
The German Social Democratic Party is founded in Poland.
World War I: First Battle of Gaza: British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
The Vancouver Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
First Balkan War: Bulgarian forces capture Adrianople.
An explosion at the Brunner Mine near Greymouth, New Zealand, kills 65 coal miners in the country's worst industrial accident.
The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
The elections of Commune council of the Paris Commune are held.
The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
An earthquake devastates Caracas, Venezuela.
A political cartoon in the Boston-Gazette coins the term "gerrymander" to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection.
William Dampier is the first European to circumnavigate New Britain, discovering it is an island (which he names Nova Britannia) rather than part of New Guinea.
Safavid government troops take control of Basra.
The Silver-loaded Spanish ship San José, pushed south by strong winds, is wrecked on the coast of southern Chile and its surviving crew members are killed by indigenous Cuncos.
The Royal Academy of Turku, the first university of Finland, is founded in the city of Turku by Queen Christina of Sweden at the proposal of Count Per Brahe.
Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.
Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh guru.
William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.
Combat of the Thirty: Thirty Breton knights call out and defeat thirty English knights.
The Siege of Algeciras, one of the first European military engagements where gunpowder was used, comes to an end.
The crown of Aragon and the crown of Castile agree in the Treaty of Almizra on the limits of their respective expansion into al-Andalus.
Saladin becomes the emir of Egypt.
Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.
The death of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, kept secret for six weeks, is announced, along with the succession of his son, al-Zahir li-i'zaz Din Allah.
First Eid al-Fitr celebration.
Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.