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At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.
An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.
A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.
Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Secret Service agent Oliver Sipple.
The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also known as the Second Kashmir War) between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the UN calls for a ceasefire.
The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
Gail Halvorsen officially started parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Air lift.
The Holocaust in Ukraine: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
World War II: Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.
Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken, ending the Battle of El Mazuco.
An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.
Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
German submarine SM U-9 torpedoes and sinks the British cruisers HMS Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy on the Broad Fourteens off the Dutch coast with the loss of over 1,400 men.
The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
Lindal Railway Incident, providing inspiration for "The Lost Special" by A.C. Doyle and the TV serial Lost.
Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule.
Slavery in the United States: A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
Joseph Smith states he found the golden plates on this date after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
Battle of Rymnik establishes Alexander Suvorov as a pre-eminent Russian military commander after his allied army defeat superior Ottoman Empire forces.
The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
The last of those convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials are hanged; the remainder of those convicted are all eventually released.
English playwright Ben Jonson kills actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter.
Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.
The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.
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