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Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.
Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961.
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected to the papacy and becomes Pope Benedict XVI.
The 1997 Red River flood overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.
Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of 6.
The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. 76 Davidians including 18 children under the age of 10 died in the fire.
A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with Good Night.
Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia.
The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel.
Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for conspiracy in the Tate-LaBianca murders.
Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guarantees its neutrality.
Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparán, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI of France in a proxy wedding.
Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa (not actually born until 1717).
In Ireland: O'Doherty's Rebellion is launched by the Burning of Derry
Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms.
The Lisbon Massacre begins, in which accused Jews are being slaughtered by Portuguese Catholics.
Empress Irene organizes a conspiracy against her son, the Byzantine emperor Constantine VI. He is deposed and blinded. Shortly after, Constantine dies of his wounds; Irene proclaims herself basileus.
Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Raqqa (northern Syria).
The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested.
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