The 2024 Loblaw boycott, a Canadian boycott against retail corporation and grocer Loblaw Companies, begins.
Naxalite attack in Gadchiroli district of India: Sixteen army soldiers, including a driver, killed in an IED blast. Naxals targeted an anti-Naxal operations team.
Naruhito ascends to the throne of Japan succeeding his father Akihito, beginning the Reiwa period.
Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin.
Invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, on board the USS Abraham Lincoln (off the coast of California), U.S. President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended".
Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa is assassinated in Colombo in a suicide bombing carried out by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
World War II: German radio broadcasts news of Adolf Hitler's death, falsely stating that he has "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany". The Soviet flag is raised over the R...
World War II: Up to 2,500 people die in a mass suicide in Demmin following the advance of the Red Army.
The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
The Empire of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance.
Queen Victoria opens The Great Exhibition at The Crystal Palace in London.
Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, is established.
The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.
The Slave Trade Act 1807 takes effect, abolishing the slave trade within the British Empire.
Christopher Columbus presents his plans discovering a western route to the Indies to the Spanish Queen Isabella I of Castile.
Wars of Scottish Independence end: By the Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton, England recognises Scotland as an independent state.