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Formula One racing driver Jules Bianchi sustained fatal head injuries in a crash at the Japanese Grand Prix, dying the following year.
Two Chinese cargo ships were attacked and their crews murdered on a stretch of the Mekong River in far northern Thailand.
Colour revolutions: During protests over irregularities in the Yugoslavian general election, a wheel-loader was driven into the Radio Television of Serbia building, giving the protests the nickname "Bulldozer Revolution".
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Windows 11 is released to the general public.
In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered.
Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan MiloĆĄeviÄ.
The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in West London kills 31 people.
Swiss police find the bodies of 48 members of the Order of the Solar Temple, who had died in a cult mass murder-suicide.
An Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash kills 135 people.
After 150 years The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
A Chilean opposition coalition defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt.
Seven Israeli vacationers, including four children, are killed in a mass shooting at Ras Burqa in the Sinai Peninsula by an Egyptian soldier.
Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.
Tylenol products are recalled after bottles in Chicago laced with cyanide cause seven deaths.
Bombs planted by the PIRA in pubs in Guildford kill four British soldiers and one civilian.
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded in the United States.[citation needed]
The British Trade Commissioner, James Cross, is kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec, triggering the October Crisis in Canada.
A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police.
A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Detroit suffers a partial meltdown.
The United States suspends the Commercial Import Program in response to repression of the Buddhist majority by the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem.
The first of the James Bond film series, based on the novels by Ian Fleming, Dr. No, is released in Britain.
The first Beatles single "Love Me Do" is released in Britain.
President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.
A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of the Warner Brothers studio.
The Provisional Government of the French Republic enfranchises women.
World War II: Pacific Theater: Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
Holocaust: In Nazi Germany, Jews' passports are invalidated.
The Jarrow March sets off for London.
Clyde Edward Pangborn and Hugh Herndon,Jr. make the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean in the plane Miss Veedol.
British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage killing 48 people.
The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.[citation needed]
World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire for the first time.
The KowloonâCanton Railway commences service.
In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes.
Peace congress in Paris condemns British policy in South Africa and asserts Boer Republic's right to self-determination.
The Nez Perce War in the northwestern United States comes to an end.
The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region in Canada.
The Eastman tunnel, in Minnesota, United States, collapses during construction, causing a landslide that nearly destroys St. Anthony Falls.
War of 1812: The Army of the Northwest defeats a British and Native Canadian force threatening Detroit.
French Revolution: The Women's March on Versailles effectively terminates royal authority.
Assassins attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi.
Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria expels Jews from his jurisdiction.
With the signing of the Treaty of Zamora, King Alfonso VII of LeĂłn and Castile recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.
The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to depose patriarch Photios I.
King Louis the Pious is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope.
Heraclius arrives at Constantinople, kills Byzantine Emperor Phocas, and becomes emperor.