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Agni Air Flight CHT crashes near Jomsom Airport in Jomsom, Nepal, after a failed go-around, killing 15 people.
The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.
Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, United States hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire.
Andreas Baader is freed from custody by Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin and others, a pivotal moment in the formation of The Red Army Faction.
Civil Rights Movement: The Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob.
Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland.
World War II: The Battle of the Netherlands ends with the Netherlands surrendering to Germany.
World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers.
Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.
The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.
American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor
The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
The process of the U.S. Government moving the United States capital city from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. begins.
In Philadelphia, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides.
War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.
Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
Henry IV of France is assassinated, bringing Louis XIII to the throne.
Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians.
Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
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