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A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.
The Left Front government of West Bengal sends at least 3,000 police to Nandigram in an attempt to break Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee resistance there; the resulting clash leaves 14 dead.
Members of the Chadian military fail in an attempted coup d'état.
Space exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
Johnson South Reef Skirmish: Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in Johnson South Reef, disputed Spratly Islands.
In Poland, LOT Flight 7 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing 44 and injuring at least 200.
The Israel Defense Forces invade and occupies southern Lebanon in Operation Litani.
Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.
The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
USAF Broken Arrow nuclear weapon mishap in B-52 crash near Yuba City, Ca.
Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
World War II: The R.A.F.'s first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.
Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
The first all-sound film version of Show Boat opens at Radio City Music Hall.
El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica: A train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás. Two hundred forty-eight are killed and 93 wounded.
Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vents to atmosphere.
Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge is established by US President Theodore Roosevelt.
The Hay-Herrán Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance in London.
Battle of Wuchale: Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I pacifies a group of Oromo near Wuchale.
American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.
Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
Chioggia concludes an alliance with Zadar and Trogir against Venice, which becomes changed in 1412 in Šibenik.
Emperor Jin Huidi is executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao).
Casca and Cassius decide, on the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should live.
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