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Two passenger trains collided in the German town of Bad Aibling in the state of Bavaria. Twelve people died, and 85 others were injured.
The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf, killing two people.
The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.
Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame.
The 6.5-6.7 Mw Sylmar earthquake hits the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 64 and injuring 2,000.
The United States Marine Corps sends a MIM-23 Hawk missile battalion to South Vietnam, the first American troops in-country without an official advisory or training mission.
The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA.
The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attacked a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.
World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
World War II: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate.
Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as President of the United States.
The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
The Capture of Fort Rocher takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.
Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
The Northern Han Kingdom is founded by Liu Chong in modern-day Shanxi.
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