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The New England Patriots win Superbowl LI after coming back down 25 to win 34-28 in overtime. It is the first such overtime game in Superbowl history. Tom Brady wins 4th Super Bowl MVP award.
A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law.
French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España", or Leader of Spain.
Mutiny on Royal Netherlands Navy warship HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën off the coast of Sumatra, Dutch East Indies.
The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties.
King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexandru Ioan Cuza as the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered the birth of the modern Romanian state.
The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
University of Wisconsin-Madison's first class meets at Madison Female Academy.
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
HMS Blenheim (1761) and HMS Java disappear off the coast of Rodrigues.
South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty, declares himself emperor and establishes the state of Yan.
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