Mike Rann secures the first Labor majority government in South Australia since 1985 by winning the state election.

Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is removed at the request of her husband.

British Sign Language is recognised as an official British language.

FBI agents raid the corporate headquarters of HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama on suspicion of massive corporate fraud led by the company's top executives.

U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started on March 2) after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities.

The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en-route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 on board and leading to the grounding of all An-24s.

A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162.

White South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour, in a national referendum, to end the racist policy of Apartheid.

In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.

In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found nearby the Pyramid of Cheops.

At Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, 50 people are killed by an explosion of a Vostok-2M rocket on its launch pad during a fueling operation.

Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.

In Peru a landslide crashes into Lake Yanahuani, killing 200 at the mining camp of Chungar.

Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.

The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.

Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.

The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.

Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.

The Evian Accords put an end to the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.

An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 250.

Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of a Tito-Stalin split.

Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Soviet Union are established.

World War II: 1,250 American bombers attack Berlin.

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 and causes thousands to flee their homes.

The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.

World War II: Axis Powers

Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.

The human-powered aircraft, ''Pedaliante'', flies {{convert|1|km|mi}} outside Milan.

Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.

The New London School explosion kills three hundred, mostly children.

The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.

In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He would serve only 2 years.

The second Peace of Riga between Poland and Soviet Union.

World War I: Massive naval attack in Battle of Gallipoli. Three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.

King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.

Traian Vuia flies a heavier-than-air aircraft for 20 meters at 1 meter altitude.

Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.

Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.

Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders evacuation of Paris.

American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States of America adjourns for the last time.

American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.

Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.

The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.

American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.

John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.

Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.

Albert II of Habsburg becomes Holy Roman Emperor.

Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.

Kraków is ravaged by Mongols.

Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor declares himself King of Jerusalem during the Sixth Crusade.

The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius's will and proclaims Caligula emperor.