⭐ Featured
A lone gunman fatally shot twelve people and injured three others at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C.
Seventeen Iraqi civilians were shot and killed by Academi guards in Baghdad.
The British pound (coin pictured) was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism on Black Wednesday and suffered a major devaluation.
54 results
During the Let Yet Kone massacre, the Burmese military kills 13 villagers, including eight children, after attacking a school in Sagaing Region, Myanmar.
The death of Mahsa Amini occurred in Tehran, Iran, sparking worldwide protests.
A 6.0 Mw earthquake strikes Lu County, Sichuan, China, killing three and injuring more than 88.
Inspiration4, the first private orbital crewed spaceflight, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center.
A 8.3 Mw earthquake strikes the Chilean city of Illapel, killing 15 people, injuring at least 34, leaving at least six missing, and causing extensive damage. One person also dies in Argentina.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launches its Kobani offensive against Syrian–Kurdish forces.
A gunman kills twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.
One-Two-Go Airlines Flight 269 carrying 130 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand, killing 90 people.
Security guards working for Blackwater Worldwide shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square, Baghdad.
The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples, Italy.
Hurricane Ivan makes landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane.
Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-79 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of Sinn Féin and Irish paramilitary groups in 1988.
The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega ends in the United States with a 40-year sentence for drug trafficking and money laundering.
Black Wednesday: The British pound is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the German mark.
The railroad between the People's Republic of China and Kazakhstan is completed at Dostyk, adding a sizable link to the concept of the Eurasian Land Bridge.
The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
Lebanon War: The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon takes place.
Eight people escape from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon.
The 7.4 Mw Tabas earthquake affects the city of Tabas, Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 15,000 people are killed.
Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.
Night of the Pencils: In the city of La Plata, Argentina, a group of high-school students were kidnapped and later tortured, raped and murdered during the Argentinian military dictatorship
Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia.
Cape Verde, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe join the United Nations.
The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
King Hussein of Jordan declares war against the Palestine Liberation Organization, the conflict came to be known as Black September.
The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.
Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak. However, Singapore is soon expelled from this new country.
The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.
Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
Pakistan establishes its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with Abdus Salam as its head.
The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
TCN-9 Sydney is the first Australian television station to commence regular broadcasts.
The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.
A Soviet Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.
American Airlines Flight 723 crashes in Colonie, New York, killing 28 people.
World War II: The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.
World War II: The German Tenth Army reports that it can no longer contain the Allied bridgehead around Salerno.
World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.
The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.
World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.
The General Motors Corporation is founded.
Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York.
Robert College, in Istanbul, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a "note" read to the Academy of Sciences, reports a direct refraction experiment verifying David Brewster's hypothesis that photoelasticity (as it is now known) is stress-induced birefringence.
With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.
American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
In Campo Maior, Portugal, a storm hits the Armory and a violent explosion ensues, killing two-thirds of its inhabitants.
James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland on the death of his father, James II.
Pilgrims set sail for Virginia from Plymouth, England in the Mayflower.
Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.
Pope Honorius I is posthumously excommunicated by the Sixth Ecumenical Council.