Former U.S. president Donald Trump is charged in Georgia along with 18 others in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election in that state, his fourth indictment of 2023.
Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
Lebanon War: A ceasefire takes effect three days after the United Nations Security Council's approval of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, formally ending hostilities between Lebanon and Israel.
Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is shot and killed by a Turkish security officer while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
Pakistan gains independence from the British Empire as the Dominion of Pakistan, due to the partition of India.
World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn; destroying 240,000 acres (970 km2) of land.
The 1920 Summer Olympics, having started four months earlier, officially open in Antwerp, Belgium, with the newly adopted Olympic flag and the Olympic oath being raised and taken at the Opening Ceremony for the first time in Olympic history.
World War I: The Republic of China, which had heretofore been shipping labourers to Europe to assist in the war effort, officially declares war on the Central Powers, although it will continue to send to Europe labourers instead of combatants for the...
World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive.
The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida.
Slaves from plantations in Saint-Domingue hold a Vodou ceremony led by houngan Dutty Boukman at Bois Caïman, marking the start of the Haitian Revolution.
The Treaty of Wereloe ended the 1788–1790 Russo-Swedish War.
The first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis.
King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.