Captain Bill Compton brings Trans World Airlines Flight 220, an MD-83, into St. Louis International Airport bringing to an end 76 years of TWA operations following TWA's purchase by American Airlines.

Exxon announces a $73.7 billion USD deal to buy Mobil, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the world's largest company.

Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.

Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.

Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the communist party the leading role in the state.

The right-wing military rebel ''Reform the Armed forces Movement'' attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'état.

Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Anish Sharma was born (Ambala City, Haryana, India).

At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.

The AIDS virus is officially recognized.

A Yugoslavian Inex Adria Aviopromet DC-9 crashes in Corsica killing all 180 people on-board.

Angola joins the United Nations.

Lambda Theta Phi - The first latino fraternity is established in New Jersey.

Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.

TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport killing all 92 people on-board.

Black Sabbath has released the album Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Papua New Guinea gains self government from Australia.

The Indian Army recaptures part of Kashmir occupied forcibly by Pakistan.

Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.

Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.

The Border Security Force is formed in India as a special force to guard the borders.

Malawi, Malta and Zambia join the United Nations.

Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.

Nagaland becomes the 16th state of India.

The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea.

Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested then deported from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.

Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.

The Our Lady of the Angels School Fire in Chicago, Illinois, kills 92 children and three nuns.

The Central African Republic becomes independent from France.

American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

The ''New York Daily News'' reports the news of Christine Jorgenson, the first notable case of sexual reassignment surgery.

World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.

In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot dead by Leonid Nikolayev at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad.

World War I aftermath: The final Locarno Treaty is signed in London, establishing post-war territorial settlements.

Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom (she had been elected to that position on November 28).

The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.

Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.

Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28).

The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.

Buenos Aires,Argentina. The Buenos Aires Subway starts operating, it`s the first underground railway system in the southern hemisphere and in Latin America

Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.

In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.

Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

French philhellene Charles Nicolas Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege.

U.S. presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate had received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Peter I is crowned Emperor of Brazil.

The first constitution of Costa Rica is issued.

The slave ship ''Fredensborg'' sinks off Tromøy in Norway.

End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal, thus ending a 60 year period of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the House of Habsburg (also called the Philippine Dynasty).

Henry V of England enters Paris.

Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.