Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Yeltsin rally outside.
The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
Pope Paul VI begins the first papal visit to the Americas.
Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
World War I: An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys a Shell Loading Plant in New Jersey.
World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now known as Texas A&M) opens as the first public college in Texas.
American Civil War: The two-day Second Battle of Corinth ends in a Union victory, with General William Rosecrans protecting the critical rail junction of Corinth, Mississippi from Confederate forces under General Earl Van Dorn.
The Crimean War begins when the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.
The Belgian Revolution takes legal form when the provisional government secedes from the Netherlands.
Napoleon first rises to prominence by suppressing counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention.
American Revolutionary War: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under William Howe.
Thirty Years' War: The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
Otto IV is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III.