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Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.
The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history.
Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal.
Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.
Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
British Airtours Flight 28M suffers an engine fire during takeoff at Manchester Airport. The pilots abort but due to inefficient evacuation procedures 55 people are killed, mostly from smoke inhalation.
The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Congress. The proposed amendment would have provided the District of Columbia with full voting representation in the Congress, the Electoral College, and regarding amending the U.S. Constitution. The proposed amendment failed to be ratified by enough states (ratified by 16, needed 38) and so did not become part of the Constitution.
The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FLSN) occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands that he resign or else be unseated through force and new elections.
Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
X-15 Flight 91 reaches the highest altitude of the X-15 program (107.96 km (67.08 mi) (354,200 feet)).
The OAS attempts to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle.
The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's strongest since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy.
Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead in an ambush during the Irish Civil War.
German troops execute 384 inhabitants of Tamines, Belgium.
Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan-Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.
Nat Turner's slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton County, Virginia, leading to the deaths of about 60 whites and approximately 250 blacks.
French troops land at Kilcummin, County Mayo, Ireland to aid the rebellion.
Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, and claims the east coast of Australia for Britain as New South Wales.
Britain's Quebec Expedition loses eight ships and almost nine hundred soldiers, sailors and women to rocks at Pointe-aux-Anglais.
Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.
Charles I raises his standard in Nottingham, which marks the beginning of the English Civil War.
Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.
Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
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