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Kabul twin bombing occurred in the vicinity of Deh Mazang when protesters, mostly from the Shiite Hazara minority, were marching against route changing of the TUTAP power project. At least 80 people were killed and 260 were injured.
Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.
A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender.
General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
Thirteen Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Outside Santa Clarita, California, actor Vic Morrow and two children are killed when a helicopter crashes onto them while shooting a scene from Twilight Zone: The Movie.
Phạm Tuân becomes the first Vietnamese citizen and the first Asian in space when he flies aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Intercosmos Research Cosmonaut.
The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government, beginning Greece's metapolitefsi era.
Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur initiating massive reforms, modernization programs and end to a decade long civil war.
The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, to Lod, Israel.
Glenville shootout: In Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days.
Detroit Riots: In Detroit, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It ultimately kills 43 people, injures 342 and burns about 1,400 buildings.
The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.
The Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, Essex, England.
Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.
The Holocaust: The Treblinka extermination camp is opened.
The United States' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) is established at the founding National Congress.
Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.
American Civil War: Henry Halleck takes command of the Union Army.
In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
While the Mora Rebellion continues, Greeks capture Monemvasia Castle. Turkish troops and citizens are transferred to Minor Asia coasts.
Roger Sherman, a Connecticut Patriot and member of the Committee of Five selected to draft the Declaration of Independence, dies of typhoid in New Haven, Connecticut, at age 72.
Scanian War: Denmark-Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios.
Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I plunders the Bulgarian capital of Pliska and captures Khan Krum's treasury.
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