Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected as the 9th President Of Sri Lanka.
An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time.
Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service.
Twenty-four people are killed when Ansett-ANA Flight 149 crashes in Winton, Queensland, Australia.
The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the United Nations calls for a ceasefire.
In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
The Four Level Interchange, first stack interchange in the world opened in Los Angeles.
World War II: A joint German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland.
Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history (later surpassed by her great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth II on 9 September 2015).
The first hydropower plant of Finland is commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa.
The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay's only significant victory in the Paraguayan War.
A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released by Abraham Lincoln.
Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces.
Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.
George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
The first attacks of the Tuscarora War begin in present-day North Carolina.
The Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War.