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Meitnerium, a synthetic chemical element with the atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
El Tacnazo: Francisco Morales Bermúdez, Peruvian Prime Minister carries out a coup d'état in the city of Tacna, forcing the sitting President of Peru, Juan Velasco Alvarado, to resign and assuming his place as the new President.
Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
World War II: Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
World War II: German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
World War II: Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.
World War I: Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle with an internal combustion engine, the Reitwagen.
The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
Portuguese and Brazilian diplomats sign the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro, which has Portugal recognise Brazilian independence, formally ending the Brazilian War of Independence. The treaty will be ratified by the King of Portugal three months later.
American Revolutionary War: American forces battle and defeat the British and Iroquois forces at the Battle of Newtown.
American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
The Treaty of Easton establishes the first American Indian reservation, at Indian Mills, New Jersey, for the Lenape.
The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between the kingdoms of France and England.