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South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex with North Korea in response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4.
Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.
The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
Kenyan soldiers commit the worst ever human rights violation in the country by slaughtering an estimated 5000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in Wagalla in N.E.-Kenya.
Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up seven emirates.
The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82.
Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for.
Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
United States President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
Crowds gathered at shop windows in Paris to see Christian Dior's New Look fashion - longer skirts, nipped-in waists and padded shoulders.
Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
World War II: Imperial Japanese Army capture Banjarmasin, capital of Borneo in Dutch East Indies.
The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.
Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaaf dies four days later.
Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.
French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.
The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
In front of the high altar of Greyfriar's Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn sparking revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence
Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
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