NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by the Kepler space telescope.
Megawati Sukarnoputri was sworn in as the first female president of Indonesia following her predecessor's impeachment.
Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Phạm Tuân becomes the first Vietnamese citizen and the first Asian in space when he flies aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Intercosmos Research Cosmonaut.
The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.
World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin on the Eastern Front.
The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.
In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
Sir Thomas Maitland is appointed as the first Governor of Malta, transforming the island from a British protectorate to a de facto colony.
A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios.