The 2016 Uri attack in Jammu and Kashmir, India by terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed results in the deaths of nineteen Indian Army soldiers and all four attackers.
Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom, by 55% to 45%.
The 2011 Sikkim earthquake is felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet.
Philippe Croizon becomes the first quadruple amputee to swim across the English Channel.
Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.
First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.
Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
An attempted coup d'état against Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaoré is uncovered and foiled.
General Henri Namphy, president of Haiti, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by General Prosper Avril.
The Magna Charta Universitatum, asserting key principles essential to the free operation of universities, is signed in Bologna by the rectors of 388 institutions of higher learning, to commemorate the 900th anniversary of the University of Bologna.
Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
Voyager I takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
The first television adaptation of Charles Addams's "The Addams Family" premieres on ABC Television.
Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
The Bank of America introduces its first credit card, the BankAmericard (later renamed the VISA Card), in a test market in Fresno County, California.
Finnish president J. K. Paasikivi becomes the first Western head of state to be awarded the highest honor of the Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin.