President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for an Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
The first parkrun, then known as the Bushy Park Time Trial, takes place in Bushy Park, London, UK.
The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu is re-elected in a one-man election.
Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before the start of the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Guinea declares its independence from France.
World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks HMS Curacoa, killing over 300 crewmen aboard Curacoa.
Ukrainian War of Independence: Mikhail Frunze orders the Red Army to immediately cease hostilities with the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine.
Seven days after suffering a "physical collapse" following a speech in Pueblo, Colorado, U.S. president Woodrow Wilson has a catastrophic stroke at the White House, leaving him physically and mentally incapacitated for the remainder of his presidency...
Texas Revolution: Mexican troops attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.