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2017 Stockholm attack happened on Drottninggatan in central Stockholm, Sweden. A stolen truck slams into people at high speed, killing five and injuring fifteen others.
Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
Auburn Calloway attempts to destroy Federal Express Flight 705 in order to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy.
Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star, killing 159 people.
Iran-Contra affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).
Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
During the Iran hostage crisis, the United States severs relations with Iran.
Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party (UK) after being arrested for faking his own death.
President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization.
Motor racing world champion Jim Clark is killed in an accident during a Formula Two race at Hockenheim.
A bulldozer kills Rev. Bruce W. Klunder, a civil rights activist, during a school segregation protest in Cleveland, Ohio, sparking a riot.
Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific opened on Broadway; it would run for 1,925 performances and win ten Tony Awards.
World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
World War II: The Yamato, one of the two largest battleships ever constructed, is sunk by American aircraft during Operation Ten-Go.
Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
The Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress and march through the city to the nearby village of Plebanivka, where they are shot and buried in ditches.
Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment. (Now celebrated as National Beer Day in the United States of America)
The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
The United States Secretary of the Interior leases federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms.
H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by a Fenian activist.
American Civil War: The Union's Army of the Tennessee and the Army of the Ohio defeat the Confederate Army of Mississippi near Shiloh, Tennessee.
Emperor Pedro I of Brazil resigns. He goes to his native Portugal to become King Pedro IV.
Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.
Selim III became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
American pioneers to the Northwest Territory establish Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory.
Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward.
Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
Empress Matilda became the first female ruler of England, adopting the title 'Lady of the English'.
Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.
First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
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