Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying.

Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is established.

The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).

President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.

South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.

In Cilaos, Réunion, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record.

World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov

World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.

Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the austrofascist dictatorship.

{{SS|Viking}} explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.

The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.

After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.

Czar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar.

President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.

Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.

The first Test cricket match begins between England and Australia.

A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.

Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.

In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.

American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse

South Carolina becomes the first American colony to declare its independence from Great Britain and set up its own government.

Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.

Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes jizya (per capita tax) .

First meeting of the Council of Trent.

Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen's Latin version of Saxo’s ''Gesta Danorum,'' the oldest known version of that work.

Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.

Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.

After a ten-year truce, German King Henry I defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.

Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.

Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han and claims his legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty.