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The Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan, was attacked and held for several hours by 12 gunmen, resulting in 16 deaths and 95 injuries.
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, widow of King George VI and mother of Queen Elizabeth II, died at Royal Lodge aged 101.
John Hinckley Jr. shot and wounded U.S. president Ronald Reagan and three others outside the Washington Hilton (immediate aftermath pictured).
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Donald Trump becomes the first former United States president to be indicted by a grand jury.
Pope Francis visits Morocco.
The Israeli Army kills 17 Palestinians and wounds 1,400 in Gaza during Land Day protests.
SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket.
Min Aung Hlaing is appointed as the Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar's armed forces.
Twelve gunmen attack the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan.
Drolma Kyi arrested by Chinese authorities.
Cyclone Glenda, one of the strongest tropical cyclones in the Australian region makes landfall near Onslow, Western Australia.
The 2002 Lyon car attack takes place.
Space Shuttle program: STS-3 mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident.
Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament (MP), is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
Israeli-Palestinian conflict: in the first organized response against Israeli policies by a Palestinian collective since 1948, Palestinians create the first Land Day.
Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
Delta Air Lines Flight 9877 crashes at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, killing 19.
Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City.
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
Cold War: A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO.
World War II: Soviet forces invade Austria and capture Vienna. Polish and Soviet forces liberate Danzig.
World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria.
Out of 795 Lancasters, Halifaxes and Mosquitos sent to attack Nuremberg, 95 bombers do not return, making it the largest RAF Bomber Command loss of the war.
Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Jingwei.
The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph (745 km/h).
Beginning of the bloody March Events in Baku and other locations of Baku Governorate.
Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover the first clay tablet with hieroglyphic writing in a script later called Linear B.
German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the Russian and British Empires.
Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.
Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about two cents/acre ($4.19/km2), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.
Discovery of the chemical elements: Sir William Crookes announces his discovery of thallium.
The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.
Origins of the American Civil War: "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
The National Bank of Greece is founded in Athens.
The Florida Territory is created in the United States.
Physicist Augustin Fresnel reads a memoir on optical rotation to the French Academy of Sciences, reporting that when polarized light is "depolarized" by a Fresnel rhomb, its properties are preserved in any subsequent passage through an optically-rotating crystal or liquid.
Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Proclamation, among the earliest calls for Italian unification.
Guru Gobind Singh establishes the Khalsa in Anandpur Sahib, Punjab.
Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England.
The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.
Avar–Byzantine wars: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro-Slavic army is decimated by the plague.