Atari releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game.
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.
The United Nations General Assembly approve the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.
French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam during the First Indochina War.
U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.
The Armenian Revolutionary Committee declares Armenia to be a Soviet Socialist Republic, starting 71 years of Soviet rule in Armenia
The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.
Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, is signed in Olomouc. Prussia capitulates to Austria, which will take over the leadership of the German Confederation.
Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the Cayuse War.
John VI of Portugal flees Lisbon from advancing Napoleonic forces during the Peninsular War, transferring the Portuguese court to Brazil.
San Jose, California, is founded as Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe by José Joaquín Moraga. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.
During the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.
Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
The Battle of Swally takes place, which loosens the Portuguese Empire's hold on India.
The Tang dynasty scores a decisive victory over their rival Xue Rengao at the Battle of Qianshuiyuan.