NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in the first all-female spacewalk when they venture out of the International Space Station to replace a power controller.
Riots in Chile's capital Santiago escalate into open battles, with attacks reported at nearly all of the city's 164 Metro stations. President Sebastián Piñera later announces a 15-day state of emergency in the capital.
Bolivian gas conflict: Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
Based on the world's first children's art museum, the Henrik Igityan National Centre for Aesthetics opened in Yerevan.
The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat, becomes the first cat launched into space.
Texas Instruments announces the Regency TR-1, the first mass-produced transistor radio.
A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, stages a coup d'état against president Isaías Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day.
World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany.
World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel takes place in Ulm, Germany.
First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.
American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine).
Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
Boston shoemakers form the first American labor organization.
Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia, defeats the Army of Andrew Báthory in the Battle of Șelimbăr, leading to the first recorded unification of the Romanian people.
Ships belonging to the Matsura clan of Japan fail to capture the Portuguese trading carrack in the Battle of Fukuda Bay, the first recorded naval battle between Japan and the West.