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The Ram Rath Yatra, a politicalâreligious rally organised to erect a temple to the Hindu deity Rama on the site of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, began in the Indian state of Gujarat.
In one of the largest prison escapes in British history, 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners hijacked a meals lorry and broke out of HM Prison Maze in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Sandra Day O'Connor (pictured) became the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault.
The 8.3 Mw⯠HokkaidĆ earthquake strikes just offshore HokkaidĆ, Japan.
PauknAir Flight 4101, a British Aerospace 146, crashes near Melilla Airport in Melilla, Spain, killing 38 people.
NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-86 to the Mir space station.
NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.
Fijian Governor-General Penaia Ganilau is overthrown in a coup d'Ă©tat led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.
3 civilians killed by alleged supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Larnaca yacht killings.
Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze Prison.
Belize joins the United Nations.
PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing all 135 aboard Flight 182, both occupants of the Cessna, as well as seven people on the ground.
About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.
The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.
The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.
Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo affair.
The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah al-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency.
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon, is mortally shot by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem via Oosterbeek.
Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
World War I: The end of the Battle of Megiddo, the climax of the British Army's Sinai and Palestine campaign under General Edmund Allenby.
World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
Leonardo Torres Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino in the Bilbao Abra (Spain), guiding an electric boat from the shore with people on board, which was controlled at a distance over 2Â km (1.2Â mi), in what is considered to be the origin of modern wireless remote-control operation principles.
The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.
The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for allowing the expedition to move further upriver.
Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday.
The United States Congress passes twelve constitutional amendments: the ten known as the Bill of Rights, the (unratified) Congressional Apportionment Amendment, and the Congressional Compensation Amendment.
The mine of Huancavelica in the Peruvian Andes collapses killing more than hundred people. The event was a major setback for quicksilver production in the Spanish Empire.
American Revolutionary War: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal in the Battle of Longue-Pointe during the invasion of Quebec.
American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec sets off to join the American invasion.
Unification of Nepal
Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
The Peace of Augsburg is signed by Emperor Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.
Spanish explorer Vasco NĂșñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.
Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing the location of their common border.
In the Battle of Stamford Bridge, Harald Hardrada, the invading King of Norway, is defeated by King Harold II of England.
Led by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, the Hasanid branch of the Alids begins the Alid Revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate.
For the last time, the Roman Senate chooses an emperor; they elect 75-year-old Marcus Claudius Tacitus.