First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
Microsoft releases Windows 95 to the public in North America.
Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist prime minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
Buddhist crisis: As a result of the Xá Lợi Pagoda raids, the US State Department cables the United States Embassy, Saigon to encourage Army of the Republic of Vietnam generals to launch a coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm if he did not remove his...
Vice president João Café Filho takes office as president of Brazil, following the suicide of Getúlio Vargas.
Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
The treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization goes into effect.
World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris.
World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk, with the loss of seven officers and 113 crewmen. The US carrier USS Enterprise is heavily damaged.
Kweilin incident: A Japanese warplane shoots down the Kweilin, a Chinese civilian airliner, killing 14. It is the first recorded instance of a civilian airliner being shot down.
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
World War I: The Battle of Cer ends as the first Allied victory in the war.
Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn in as the first President of Portugal.
Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
British troops capture Washington, D.C. and set the Presidential Mansion, Capitol, Navy Yard and many other public buildings ablaze.
The first naval battle of the Svensksund began in the Gulf of Finland.
American Revolutionary War: A small force of Pennsylvania militia is ambushed and overwhelmed by an American Indian group, which forces George Rogers Clark to abandon his attempt to attack Detroit.