A picture of Les Horribles Cernettes was taken, which became the first ever photo posted to the World Wide Web.
Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.
World War II: During the Beisfjord massacre in Norway, 15 Norwegian paramilitary guards help members of the SS to kill 288 political prisoners from Yugoslavia.
The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time.
The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
American Civil War: Second Battle of Fort Wagner: One of the first formal African American military units, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, supported by several white regiments, attempts an unsuccessful assault on Confederate-held Battery W...
First ascent of Dent Blanche, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz, BWV 136, in Leipzig on the eighth Sunday after Trinity.
The College of Arms is reincorporated by Royal charter signed by Queen Mary I of England and King Philip II of Spain.
The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone.
Roman–Persian Wars: Emperor Julian arrives at Antioch with a Roman expeditionary force (60,000 men) and stays there for nine months to launch a campaign against the Persian Empire.