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At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt.
At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
The oil tanker M/T Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.
Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
"We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.
A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others.
Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.
East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the moon.[1]
Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
Poles in Kraków engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing one and wounding five.
Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Latvian-Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
Spanish-American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
In Colombia, Juan del Corral declares the independence of Antioquia.
Peninsular War: French troops engage British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.
Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria.
Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
Franco-Dutch War: Forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.
The Battle of Otlukbeli: Mehmed the Conqueror of the Ottoman Empire decisively defeats Uzun Hassan of Aq Qoyunlu.
Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor: Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
Battle of Adda: The Goths under Theodoric the Great and his ally Alaric II defeat the forces of Odoacer on the Adda River, near Milan.
Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.
The south-western part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.
The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins.
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