India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.

Raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos. All except one died in this attack. Eight Sri Lankan Air Force planes are destroyed and 10 damaged.

A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama.

Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.

Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.

Dimitrios Arhondonis, metropolitan of Chalcedon elected 270th Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch as Patriarch Bartholomew I of the Orthodox church.

Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.

The TGV railway service between Paris and Lyon is inaugurated.

The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August.

Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.

The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.

Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris.

Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Apollo program: ''Apollo 7'' safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.

The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.

The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (''The Supremes A' Go-Go'').

Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada.

Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor.

A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.

Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.

Independence of Mali from France.

Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.

Laos gains independence from France.

World War II: Battle of Aachen: The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, making it the first German city to fall to the Allies.

World War II: in the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.

World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.

In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd. thumb with six-day weeks.]]

Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.

J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal.

Toastmasters International is founded.

Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.

Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.

In Paris an express train overruns a buffer stop and crosses more than 30 metres of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse.

The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's ''Faust''.

The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.

The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.

First telegraphic connection in Argentina.

The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.

Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.

One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.

Warriors of the Miami tribe under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War.

Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.

The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.

Construction of the Ladoga Canal is completed.

Scilly naval disaster: four British Royal Navy ships run aground near the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and thousands of sailors drown.

Battle of southern Fujian sea: The Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company.

Foundation of Aguascalientes.

The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, sparking a period of civil war and disorder.

Emperor Kanmu relocates the Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto).

A mysterious fire destroys the temple of Apollo at Daphne outside Antioch.