Violence and low turnout mar the 2019 Afghan presidential election.
Eleven days after the Uri attack, the Indian Army conducts "surgical strikes" against suspected militants in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.
The special court in India convicted all 269 accused officials for atrocity on Dalits and 17 for rape in the Vachathi case.
Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
Burt Rutan's Ansari SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the Ansari X Prize.
Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeached.
The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
NASA launches STS-26, the first Space Shuttle mission since the Challenger disaster.
WGPR becomes the first black-owned-and-operated television station in the US.
Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
During World War II, German forces, with the aid of local Ukrainian collaborators, begin the two-day Babi Yar massacre.
The First American Track and Field championships for women are held.
Ukrainian War of Independence: The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic agree to a truce with the Makhnovshchina.
World War I: Bulgaria signs the Armistice of Salonica ending its participation.
World War I: The Hindenburg Line is broken by an Allied attack.
World War I: Germany's Supreme Army Command tells Kaiser Wilhelm II and Imperial Chancellor Georg Michaelis to open negotiations for an armistice to end the war.
Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire, In this war , Italy gains Libya which ends Ottoman rule in North Africa .
The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
The Treaty of Lisbon defines the boundaries between Spain and Portugal and abolishes the Couto Misto microstate.
The Battle of Pákozd is a stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces and is the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution.