Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations.

Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily-populated residential of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on board and at least 39 persons on ground.

Tuvalu joins the United Nations.

The Haverstraw–Ossining Ferry makes its maiden voyage.

The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, came into force.

Eastern University massacre, massacre of 158 Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan army at the Eastern University in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.

Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.

Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.

STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' lands after its maiden voyage.

The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.224 km) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo.

Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.

Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.

Hanns Martin Schleyer, is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered.

Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.

Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack and take hostage 11 Israel athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 die in the attack and 9 die the following day.

Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: the United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên-Huế Province.

My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.

The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade.

The boxer Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) is awarded the gold medal for his first place in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.

The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.

Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.

In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.

Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.

Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.

Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.

World War II: The 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Nazdab, near Lae in the Salamaua-Lae campaign.

World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, first Japanese defeat in the Pacific War.

Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro Obrero massacre.

Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls.

The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.

The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, ''Trolley Troubles'', produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.

Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia

The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.

World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.

The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).

Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.

Fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter, England killed 186

The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.

Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.

Achille François Bazaine becomes Marshall of France.

James Glaisher, pioneering meteorologist and Henry Tracey Coxwell break world record for altitude whilst collecting data in their balloon.

American Civil War: the Potomac River is crossed at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.

Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's ''Un giorno di regno'' at La Scala of Milan.

The First Opium War begins in China.

Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.

Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").

War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.

Napoleon surrenders Malta to Great Britain.

Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.

French Revolution the French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.

Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War.

First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.

In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.

Great Fire of London ends: 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died.

Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers.

Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.