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A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, killing 70 people.
President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328-0, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion.
A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.
Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests.
New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake strikes Christchurch, killing 185 people.
At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
The 6.4 Mw Zarand earthquake shakes the Kerman Province of Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 612 people dead and 1,411 injured.
Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
In Roslin, Midlothian, British scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.
The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3.
The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.
Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột.
World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio address from the White House.
After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.
World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
Robert Baden-Powell made the first scouting camp in Brownsea, England.
The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine-American War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.
In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
The United States Republican Party opens its first national convention in Pittsburgh.
The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania).
Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic, begins.
Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista: Five thousand American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans troops.
Greek War of Independence: Alexander Ypsilantis crosses the Prut river at Sculeni into the Danubian Principalities.
By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
The last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.
War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon causes several Royal Navy captains to be court-martialed, and the Articles of War to be amended.
St. Peter's Flood: A storm surge floods the Frisian coast, drowning 15,000 people.
Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
Battle of Picotin between Ferdinand of Majorca and the forces of Matilda of Hainaut
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