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At least 146 people were killed and more than 114 injured in a factory explosion in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China.
Air France Flight 358 lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport and runs off the runway, causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.
A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.
Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
A flash fire kills 51 people at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches.
ASNOM: Birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.
World War II: The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew.
Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months.
Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.
A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China killing more than 50,000 people.
The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
The German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I begins.
The Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states.
The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
Japan's Edo society class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.
Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.
French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.
The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
During Henry Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage, he sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay.
Russian troops are defeated by forces of the Blue Horde Khan Arapsha in the Battle on Pyana River.
After the execution of her husband, Jeanne de Clisson sells her estates and raises a force of men with which to attack French shipping and ports.
Edward I of England returns from the Ninth Crusade and is crowned King seventeen days later.
Majorian is arrested near Tortona (northern Italy) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.
The armies of Titus destroy the Second Temple as the final blow of the Siege of Jerusalem.
The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae.
A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
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