West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes near Machiques, Venezuela, killing the 160 aboard.

In response to an appeal by President Fernando Collor de Mello to wear green and yellow as a way to show support for him, thousands of Brazilians take to the streets dressed in black.

A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market.

A McDonnell Douglas MD-82 carrying Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes on take-off from Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan (Detroit), killing 155 passengers and crew. The sole survivor is four-year-old Cecelia Cichan.

In an unsuccessful coup d'état attempt, the Royal Moroccan Air Force fires upon Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.

Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong. The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 people are arrested.

Vietnam War: A ''coup d'état'' replaces Duong Van Minh with General Nguyen Khanh as President of South Vietnam. A new constitution is established with aid from the U.S. Embassy.

Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) replaces Pete Best as drummer of The Beatles.

Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at {{convert|102800|ft|m}}, setting three records that still stand today: High-altitude jump, free-fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft.

Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.

The first edition of Sports Illustrated is published.

Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, is captured by Soviet troops.

An assassination attempt is made on Japan's prime minister, Kantaro Suzuki.

First flight of the Junkers Ju 287.

World War II: The two-person crew of the U.S. naval blimp L-8 disappears without a trace on a routine anti-submarine patrol over the Pacific Ocean. The blimp drifts without her crew and crash-lands in Daly City, California.

{{HMS|Mercury|shore establishment|6}}, Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School opens at Leydene, near Petersfield, Hampshire, England.

World War II: The Communist Party is banned in German-occupied Norway.

The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.

The 1929 Palestine riots break out in the British Mandate of Palestine between Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed.

The congress of the Communist Party of Bukhara opens. The congress would call for armed revolution.

Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. To date, Chapman is the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.

World War I: Battle of Cer begins.

Completion of the Royal Navy battlecruiser {{HMS|Queen Mary}}.

Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tōhoku University) admits its first female students.

Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.

Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-La-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.

Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the War of the Triple Alliance.

Arica, Peru (now Chile) is devastated by a tsunami that follows a magnitude 8.5 earthquake in the Peru-Chile Trench off the coast. The earthquake and tsunami kill an estimated 25,000 people in Arica and perhaps 70,000 people in all.

Restoration Day in the Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic regains its independence after 4 years of fighting against the Spanish Annexation.

The Tuscan National Assembly formally deposes the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.

U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal forces a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.

U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.

Seventeen people die and over 600 are injured in cavalry charges at a public meeting at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England.

War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.

Maximilien Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.

American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden

American Revolutionary War: The Americans led by General John Stark rout British and Brunswick troops under Friedrich Baum at the Battle of Bennington in Walloomsac, New York.

Battle of Guinegate (Battle of the Spurs) – King Henry VIII of England defeats French Forces who are then forced to retreat.