The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army launches its first attack on Myanmar security forces along the Bangladesh–Myanmar border.
First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma, but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.
President François Mitterrand abolishes capital punishment in France.
A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
The Finnish Parliament elects Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse as King of Finland, but he never accedes to the throne due to Germany's defeat in World War I.
World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.
An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Qing dynasty, beginning the Xinhai Revolution.
The Universal Postal Union is created by the Treaty of Bern.
Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of independent Greece, is assassinated.
Restauration arrives in New York Harbor from Norway, the first organized immigration from Norway to the United States.
American Revolutionary War: A combined Franco-American assault on British defenses during the Siege of Savannah is repulsed with heavy casualties.
Troops of the Portuguese Empire are defeated on Sri Lanka, bringing an end to the Campaign of Danture.
The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.