NASA's OSIRIS-REx capsule containing samples from the asteroid 101955 Bennu successfully lands back on Earth.
The Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt.
Thabo Mbeki resigns as president of South Africa.
Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
Southwest Face expedition members become the first persons to reach the summit of Mount Everest by any of its faces, instead of using a ridge route.
Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
Japan Airlines Flight 472 lands at Juhu Aerodrome instead of Santacruz Airport in Bombay, India, overrunning the runway resulting in 11 injuries.
USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
The top-secret Clifford-Elsey Report on the Soviet Union is delivered to President Truman.
Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights.
Mahatma Gandhi and B. R. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the "Depressed Classes" (Untouchables).
Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
The Battle of Shiroyama is a decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion.
Black Friday (1869): Gold prices plummet after United States President Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
The first powered, passenger-carrying airship, the Giffard dirigible, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
A revolutionary committee of notables forms the Provisional Government of Belgium.
The Battle of Rowton Heath in England occurs, ending in a Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles I.