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Former U.S. Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen during an anti-police protest in downtown Dallas, Texas, killing five of them. He is subsequently killed by a robot-delivered bomb.
A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.
At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.
The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world.
A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others.
NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover-B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.
The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.
Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17.
Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
U.S. President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.
Buddhist crisis: The police of Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of President Ngô Đình Diệm, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest.
Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right".
Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.
Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine - the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, dies.
Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
An International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
The United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
U.S. President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.
Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the conquest of California.
In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
The Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the War of the Fourth Coalition.
As a result of the XYZ Affair, the U.S. Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the "Quasi-War".
American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.
The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
The Raid of the Redeswire is the last major battle between England and Scotland.
Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada.
Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.
A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
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