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The NASA spacecraft MAVEN entered into orbit around Mars to study the planet's atmosphere.
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan, was attacked by two suicide bombers who killed 127 people.
Dolphin, the first emulator for the GameCube that could run commercial video games, was released.
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Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected as the 9th President Of Sri Lanka.
At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Twenty-three people were killed in a maglev train collision in Lathen, Germany.
An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.
A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.
A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time.
During a military exercise, a Turkish Air Force Northrop F-5 crashes in Babaeski as a result of pilot error, killing one crew member and also 65 soldiers on the ground.
Iraq invades Iran, sparking the nearly eight year IranâIraq War.
A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.
Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs.
Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service.
Twenty-four people are killed when Ansett-ANA Flight 149 crashes in Winton, Queensland, Australia.
The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the United Nations calls for a ceasefire.
The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
The Four Level Interchange, first stack interchange in the world opened in Los Angeles.
Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.
Israeli-Palestine conflict: The All-Palestine Government is established by the Arab League.
The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murders 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
World War II: A joint GermanâSoviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland.
The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.
The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1,500 sailors.
The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history (later surpassed by her great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth II on 9 September 2015).
A locomotive shunting falls into a hole in the ground, leading to the burial of the locomotive.
The first hydropower plant of Finland is commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa.
Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay's only significant victory in the Paraguayan War.
A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released by Abraham Lincoln.
The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
Joseph Smith claims to have found the golden plates after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces.
Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.
George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
The first attacks of the Tuscarora War begin in present-day North Carolina.
Martha Corey, Mary Eastey, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, Ann Pudeator, Wilmot Redd, Margaret Scott, and Samuel Wardwell are hanged, the last of those to be executed in the Salem witch trials.
Eighty Years' War: A Spanish force led by the Marquis del Vasto successfully fights its way past a joint English/Dutch ambush in the Battle of Zutphen.
The Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War.
An Aragonese cavalry force defeats a superior Castilian cavalry force in the Battle of Araviana during the War of the Two Peters.
The Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.