Soyuz MS-13 is launched to the International Space Station on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
The United States and Cuba resume full diplomatic relations after five decades.
Seventeen government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.
The fully restored USS Constitution (a.k.a. Old Ironsides) celebrates its 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.
Turkish invasion of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after a coup d'état, organised by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios.
Apollo program: Apollo 11's crew successfully makes the first human landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon six and a half hours later.
The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.
World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway.
In the Preußenschlag, German President Hindenburg places Prussia directly under the rule of the national government.
World War I: The Corfu Declaration, which leads to the creation of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia.
In Finland, a new electoral law is ratified, guaranteeing the country the first and equal right to vote in the world. Finnish women are the first in Europe to receive the right to vote.
The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
The first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, a two-day event, concludes.
Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain.
Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.
Tekle Giyorgis I begins his first of six reigns as Emperor of Ethiopia.
Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Empire captures Nauplia, the capital of the Republic of Venice's "Kingdom of the Morea", thereby opening the way to the swift Ottoman reconquest of the Morea.