Haitian crisis: Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is assassinated in his residence in the capital of Port-au-Prince.
The United States defeated the Netherlands 2–0 at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup final in Lyon, France.
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted with 122 countries voting in favour.
The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world.
NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.
Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
US President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Buddhist crisis: Police commanded by Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest.
Alitalia Flight 771 crashes in Junnar, Maharashtra, India, killing 94 people.
US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.
Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
US president William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution, annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.
Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.