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Thirteen-year-old Jayme Closs was kidnapped from her home in Barron, Wisconsin, and held captive for 88 days.
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Bohol in the Philippines, resulting in 222 deaths.
Global demonstrations against economic inequality, corporate influence on government, and other issues, were held in more than 950 cities in 82 countries.
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13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is kidnapped from her Barron, Wisconsin home after her parents were both murdered.
One hundred and ninety-seven nations amend the Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons.
The 7.2 Mw Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 were killed.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst percentage drop in the Dow's history.
Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
The 6.7 Mw Kiholo Bay earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.
China launches Shenzhou 5, its first crewed space mission.
NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles (180 km) of Jupiter's moon Io.
The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island.
The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator, is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
The leaders of the Baltic States, Arnold Rüütel of Estonia, Anatolijs Gorbunovs of Latvia and Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania, signed the OSCE Final Act in Helsinki, Finland.
Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 460 crashes near Conca di Crezzo, Italy, killing all 37 people on board.
A coup d'état in Burkina Faso overthrows and kills then President Thomas Sankara.
Supporters of the Malta Labour Party ransack and destroy the Times of Malta building and other locations associated with the Nationalist Party.
A coup d'état in El Salvador overthrows President Carlos Humberto Romero and begins the 12 year-long Salvadoran Civil War.
During the construction of Australia's West Gate Bridge, a span of the bridge falls and kills 35 workers. The incident is the country's worst industrial accident to this day.
The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the Catholic Worker Movement, resulting in the first arrest under a new law.
FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.
Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.
Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completes the synthesis of norethisterone, the basis of an early oral contraceptive.
World War II: Germany replaces the Hungarian government after Hungary announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.
President Lluís Companys of Catalonia is executed by the Francoist government.
The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated.
Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
The airship Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.
Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
American Civil War: The Union garrison of Glasgow, Missouri surrenders to Confederate forces.
Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted of treason.
The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
The Battle of Raft Swamp marks the last battle fought in North Carolina during the American Revolutionary War with a Patriot victory. It occurred four days before the British surrender at Yorktown.
Qing forces capture the island of Zhoushan. Zhu Yihai, Prince of Lu, resident of the island and regent of the Southern Ming, flees to Kinmen.
Adoption of the Gregorian calendar begins, eventually leading to near-universal adoption.
The Siege of Vienna ends when Austria routs the invading Ottoman forces, ending its European expansion.
Battle of the Rhyndacus: The Latin emperor Henry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Laskaris.
Following the death of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England by the Witan; he is never crowned, and concedes power to William the Conqueror two months later.