Supporters of former Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro storm the Brazilian Congress.
Twenty-three people are killed in what is described as a police ″massacre″ in La Vega, Caracas, Venezuela.
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crashes immediately after takeoff at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport; all 176 on board are killed. The plane was shot down by an Iranian anti-aircraft missile.
Joaquín Guzmán, widely regarded as the world's most powerful drug trafficker, is recaptured following his escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico.
West Air Sweden Flight 294 crashes near the Swedish reservoir of Akkajaure; both pilots, the only people on board, are killed.
Sitting US Congresswoman Gabby Giffords is shot in the head along with 18 others in a mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona. Giffords survived the assassination attempt, but six others died, including John Roll, a federal judge.
Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attack a bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three people and injuring another nine.
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern Costa Rica kills 15 people and injures 32.
The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.
The RMS Queen Mary 2, then the largest ocean liner ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of the 75 passengers.
Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board.
President of the United States George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
An Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashes into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 223 people on the ground; two of six crew members are also killed.
Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
Kegworth air disaster: British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashes into the M1 motorway, killing 47 of the 126 people on board.
Breakup of the Bell System: In the United States, AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
Three bombs explode in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.
President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
Charles de Gaulle is proclaimed as the first President of the French Fifth Republic.
Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Waorani of Ecuador shortly after making first contact.
Andrei Zhdanov, Chairman of the Finnish Allied Commission, submits to the Finnish War Criminal Court an interrogation report by General Erich Buschenhagen, a German prisoner of war, on the contacts between Finnish and German military personnel before...
World War II: Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack invading Japanese Imperial forces.
World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
Kashf-e hijab decree is made and immediately enforced by Reza Shah, Iran's head of state, banning the wearing of Islamic veils in public.
Anarchist insurrection of January 1933 breaks out in Barcelona, Spain.
Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuỵ is crowned emperor of Vietnam, the country's last monarch.
Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.
The steel strike of 1919 ends in failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" as conditions for ending World War I.
The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).
The city of San Diego passes an ordinance restricting free speech, provoking months of civil unrest between socialist Wobblies and business leaders that become the bloodiest free speech fight in history.
President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.
Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
The United States Congress passes the bill to allow African American men the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield.
US President Andrew Jackson announces a celebratory dinner after having reduced the United States national debt to zero for the only time.
The Democratic Party of the United States is organized.
War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
Charles Deslondes leads an unsuccessful slave revolt in the North American settlements of St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
The Dutch Cape Colony in southern Africa becomes the British Cape Colony as a result of the Battle of Blaauwberg.
George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York City.
Second Jacobite rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
The premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante takes place at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
The first Lithuanian-language book, the Catechism of Martynas Mažvydas, is published in Königsberg.
Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany in accordance with a law set by his predecessor, Charles VIII.
The papal bull Romanus Pontifex awards the Kingdom of Portugal exclusive trade and colonization rights to all of Africa south of Cape Bojador.
François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco.
Æthelred I and Alfred the Great lead a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings.
Sima Chi becomes emperor of the Jin dynasty in succession to his brother, Sima Zhong, despite a challenge from his other brother, Sima Ying.