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A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake was VII (Very strong). Ten were killed, twelve were injured, and a non-destructive tsunami was observed on the island of Nias.
An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others.
Algiers bombings: Two bombings in Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran's claim to have successfully enriched uranium.
Over two hundred thousand people march in Caracas towards the Presidential palace to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chávez. Nineteen protesters are killed.
The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.
Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.
Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
FBI Miami Shootout: A gun battle in broad daylight in Dade County, Florida between two bank/armored car robbers and pursuing FBI agents. During the firefight, FBI agents Jerry L. Dove and Benjamin P. Grogan were killed, while five other agents were wounded. As a result, the popular .40 S&W cartridge was developed.
A massive riot in Brixton, south London results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched.
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all Christians instead of only Catholics.
The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, launches.
Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Second Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaría burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.
The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.
Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom
Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht.
William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain.
War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna.
Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.
Bishop Stanislaus of Kraków is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.
Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
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