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At least 105 people are injured in a train crash at the Once railway station in Buenos Aires.
A bomb explosion kills eight people and injures 110 people in Beirut, Lebanon.
Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
SIEV X, an Indonesian fishing boat en route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.
The British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Féin and eleven Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups.
Black Monday: The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others die when their Tupolev Tu-134 plane crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.
Roman Catholic priest from Poland, Jerzy Popiełuszko, associated with the Solidarity Union, is murdered by three agents of the Polish Communist internal intelligence agency.
President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
Cold War: The United States government imposes a near-total trade embargo against Cuba.
The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.
Iran becomes the first country to accept technical assistance from the United States under the Point Four Program.
The People's Republic of China joins the Korean War by sending thousands of troops across the Yalu River to fight United Nations forces.
The People's Liberation Army takes control of the town of Chamdo; this is sometimes called the "Invasion of Tibet".
A coup is launched against Juan Federico Ponce Vaides, beginning the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution
Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Souda Bay, Crete, and sunk; 2,098 Italian prisoners of war drown with it.
The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
British Conservative MPs meeting at the Carlton Club vote to break off the Coalition Government with David Lloyd George of the Liberal Party.
Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.
Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
Max Planck discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law).
Austria cedes Veneto and Mantua to France, which immediately awards them to Italy in exchange for the earlier Italian acquiescence to the French annexation of Savoy and Nice.
St. Albans Raid: Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.
Battle of Cedar Creek: A U.S. Army force under Philip Sheridan destroys a Confederate army under Jubal Early.
In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí.
The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.
Napoleonic Wars: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to the Grande Armée of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Ulm; 30,000 prisoners are captured and 10,000 casualties inflicted on the losers.
John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
At Yorktown, Virginia, representatives of British commander Lord Cornwallis hand over Cornwallis' sword and formally surrender to George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau.
New Ross town, County Wexford, Ireland, surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.
Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.
The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Treaty of Thorn.
The Hundred Years' War ends with the French recapture of Bordeaux, leaving English control only on Calais
The Universität Heidelberg holds its first lecture, making it the oldest German university.
King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.
Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage.
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