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Eight-year-old Huang Na was abducted and murdered; her body was found three weeks later after a search across Singapore and Malaysia.
After 20 years of construction, Vidyasagar Setu, the longest cable-stayed bridge in India, opened, joining Kolkata and Howrah.
U.S. vice president Spiro Agnew resigned after being charged with tax evasion.
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Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig are jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. It kills 57 people in the United States, 45 in Florida, and causes an estimated $25.1 billion in damage.
The National Fire and Rescue Administration is founded, replacing the China Fire Services [zh] and the People's Armed Police Forestry Corps [zh] as China's primary firefighting agency.
Twin bomb blasts in the Turkish capital Ankara kill 109 and injure 500+.
The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.
Armenia and Turkey sign the Zurich Protocols, intended to normalize relations. However, they are never ratified by either side.
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor becomes the first Malaysian in space on board Soyuz TMA-11.
Iraq War: The United States Congress approves the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.
A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises jetliner is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in Uruguay, killing 74.
A 5.7 Mw San Salvador earthquake shakes El Salvador, killing 1,500.
US Navy aircraft intercept an Egyptian airliner carrying the perpetrators of the Achille Lauro hijacking, and force it to land in Italy.
The 7.1 Mw El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria, killing 2,633 and injuring 8,369.
The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front is founded in El Salvador.
The Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant began operations in Eurajoki, Satakunta, Finland.
Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.
Aeroflot Flight 773 is destroyed by a bomb over Moscow Oblast, killing 25.
Fiji becomes independent.
Canada's October Crisis escalates when Quebec Vice Premier Pierre Laporte is kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec.
King Crimson releases their debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King.
The Outer Space Treaty comes into force.
The Tokyo Summer Olympics opening ceremony is the first to be relayed live by satellites.
France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty comes into effect.
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he is refused service in a Delaware restaurant.
The Windscale fire results in Britain's worst nuclear accident.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Muscat, Neil Innes, sends a signal to the Sultanate's forces, accompanied with oil explorers, to penetrate Fahud, marking the beginning of Jebel Akhdar War.
The Double Tenth Agreement is signed by the Communist Party and the Kuomintang about the future of China.
Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
In Greece, a coup d'état ends the Second Hellenic Republic.
A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of the Duchy of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
RMS Leinster is torpedoed and sunk by UB-123, killing 564, the largest loss of life on the Irish Sea.
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal.
The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.
The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.
The Ten Years' War begins against Spanish rule in Cuba.
Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered by English astronomer William Lassell.
In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 students.
War of 1812: The United States Revenue Marine attempts to defend the cutter Eagle from the Royal Navy.
The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.
In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname – descended from escaped slaves – gain territorial autonomy.
Over 600 Papal troops land in Ireland to support the Second Desmond Rebellion.
Roman Catholic forces under Henry I, Duke of Guise, defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
The crew of Christopher Columbus's ship, the Santa Maria, attempt a mutiny.
Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by King Christian I of Denmark.
Charles Martel's forces defeat an Umayyad army near Tours, France.
The Battle of Karbala marks the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali.
The Roman general Germanicus dies near Antioch. He was convinced that the mysterious illness that ended in his death was a result of poisoning by the Syrian governor Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, whom he had ordered to leave the province.