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A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sana'a with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.
Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, shooting twelve people execution style, and wounding eleven others.
A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.
The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack at the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
The Jeep Grand Cherokee is introduced at the Detroit Auto Show.
Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
Third Indochina War: Cambodian-Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
Mark Essex fatally shoots ten people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stop and completely destroy the numerically superior Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City to London.
The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.
France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
Canute Lavard was murdered at Haraldsted, Denmark by his cousin, Magnus I of Sweden.
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