In response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 by North Korea, the South Korean government closed the Kaesong Industrial Region, a collaborative economic development run jointly by both countries.
The satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 destroyed each other in the first accidental hypervelocity collision between two intact satellites in low Earth orbit.
The Namdaemun gate in Seoul, the first of South Korea's National Treasures, was severely damaged by arson.
Rudolf Abel, a Soviet spy arrested by the FBI, was exchanged for Francis Gary Powers, the pilot of the CIA spy plane that had been shot down over Soviet airspace two years earlier.
The first solo exhibition by Roy Lichtenstein (pictured) opened, including the painting Look Mickey, which featured his first use of Ben Day dots, speech balloons, and comic imagery sourcing.
Puss Gets the Boot, the first Tom and Jerry cartoon, was released to theaters.
Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists concluded their conquest of Catalonia and sealed the border with France.
Second Italo-Abyssinian War: The Battle of Amba Aradam began, ending nine days later in a decisive tactical victory for Italy and the neutralisation of almost the entire Ethiopian army as a fighting force.
The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launched the failed Yên Bái mutiny in the hope of ending French colonial rule in Vietnam.
The Inter-Allied Women's Conference (delegates pictured) opened as a counterpart to the Paris Peace Conference, marking the first time that women were allowed formal participation in an international treaty negotiation.
The Royal Navy battleship HMS Dreadnought was launched, representing such a marked advance in naval technology that her name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships.
American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroyed the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
Jefferson Davis was notified that he had been selected as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Queen Victoria married at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace, London, with Albert being granted the title prince consort.
War of the Sixth Coalition: A French army led by Napoleon effectively destroyed a small Russian corps commanded by Zakhar Dmitrievich Olsufiev.
To end the Seven Years' War, Britain, France and Spain signed the Treaty of Paris, which significantly reduced the size of the French colonial empire and marked the beginning of an extensive period of British dominance outside of Europe.
The Huilliche in Chile's Chiloé Archipelago rose up against Spanish encomenderos in revenge for perceived injustices.
A tavern dispute between students of the University of Oxford and townspeople in Oxford became a riot that left about 90 people dead.
Robert the Bruce stabbed John Comyn III of Badenoch to death (pictured) in front of the altar at Greyfriars church in Dumfries.
The last Abbasid caliph surrendered Baghdad to the besieging Mongol army of Hulegu Khan, who later sacked the city, killing hundreds of thousands of people.
Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire: the city of Bukhara was captured and looted by the Mongol army of Genghis Khan.
The traditional Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is canceled for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Texas' worst energy infrastructure failure, the 2021 Texas power crisis, starts.
Nineteen people are killed and 66 injured when a Kowloon Motor Bus double decker on route 872 in Hong Kong overturns.
South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex with North Korea in response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4.
Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.
The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
Forty-three people are killed and three are injured when a Fokker 50 crashes near Sharjah International Airport.
France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5,000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre.
Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up seven emirates.
The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
Melbourne–Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82.
Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
The Paris Peace Treaties are signed by Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland and the Allies of World War II.
World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.
Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launch the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaaf dies four days later.
The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launches the failed Yên Bái mutiny in hope of overthrowing French protectorate over Vietnam.
Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs the symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites.
HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships, is christened.
American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in the final battle of the war.
Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.
French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
Huilliches in Chiloé rebel against Spanish encomenderos.
Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.
Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparking the revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
The Siege of Baghdad ends with the surrender of the last Abbasid caliph to Hulegu Khan, a prince of the Mongol Empire.
María Carlé, Argentine tennis player
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Filip Twardzik, Czech footballer
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Reinhold Yabo, German footballer
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Birgit Skarstein, Norwegian Paralympic athlete and social entrepreneur
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Justin Gatlin, American sprinter
Tarmo Neemelo, Estonian footballer
Iafeta Paleaaesina, New Zealand rugby league player
Uzo Aduba, American actress
Stephanie Beatriz, American actress
Max Brown, English actor
Andrew Johnson, English footballer
Barry Sloane, English actor
Holly Willoughby, English model and television host
César Izturis, Venezuelan baseball player
Enzo Maresca, Italian footballer
Mike Ribeiro, Canadian ice hockey player
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Joey Hand, American race car driver
Don Omar, Puerto Rican rapper, singer, producer, and actor
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Lance Berkman, American baseball player and coach
Keeley Hawes, English actress
Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese baseball player
Tina Thompson, American basketball player and coach
Elizabeth Banks, American actress
Ty Law, American football player
Ivri Lider, Israeli singer
Henry Paul, New Zealand rugby player and coach
Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, English businesswoman and politician
Michael Kasprowicz, Australian cricketer
Lorena Rojas, Mexican actress and singer (died 2015)
Melissa Doyle, Australian journalist and author
Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan international footballer and manager
Åsne Seierstad, Norwegian journalist and author
Joe Mangrum, American painter and sculptor
James Small, South African rugby player (died 2019)
Peter Popovic, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
Garrett Reisman, American engineer and astronaut
Laura Dern, American actress, director, and producer
Jacky Durand, French cyclist and sportscaster
Vince Gilligan, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Natalie Bennett, Australian-English journalist and politician
Daryl Johnston, American football player and sportscaster
Glenn Beck, American journalist, producer, and author
Lenny Dykstra, American baseball player
Cliff Burton, American musician and songwriter (died 1986)
Bobby Czyz, American boxer and commentator
Randy Velischek, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Alexander Payne, American director, producer, and screenwriter
George Stephanopoulos, American television journalist
Jim Kent, American biologist, computer programmer, academic
John Calipari, American basketball player and coach
Katherine Freese, American astrophysicist and academic
Kathleen Beller, American actress
James Martin Graham, American Roman Catholic priest (died 1997)
Enele Sopoaga, Tuvaluan politician, 12th Prime Minister of Tuvalu
Jim Cramer, American television personality, pundit, and author
Tom LaGarde, American basketball player
Greg Norman, Australian golfer and sportscaster
Lee Hsien Loong, Singaporean general and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Singapore
Bob Iger, American media executive
Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, Mexican economist and politician (died 1994)
Mark Spitz, American swimmer
Nigel Olsson, English rock drummer and singer-songwriter
Louise Arbour, Canadian lawyer and jurist
Butch Morris, American cornet player, composer, and conductor (died 2013)
Nicholas Owen, English journalist
Dick Anderson, American football player
Delma S. Arrigoitia, Puerto Rican historian, author, educator and lawyer (died 2023)
Glynn Saulters, American basketball player
Peter Allen, Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (died 1992)
Frank Keating, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of Oklahoma
Frances Moore Lappé, American author and activist
Rufus Reid, American bassist and composer
Michael Apted, English director and producer (died 2021)
Dick Carlson, American journalist and diplomat (died 2025)
Mary Rand, English sprinter and long jumper
Kenny Rankin, American singer-songwriter (died 2009)
Adrienne Clarkson, Hong Kong-Canadian journalist and politician, 26th Governor General of Canada
Deolinda Rodríguez de Almeida, Angolan nationalist (died 1967)
Anne Anderson, Scottish physiologist and academic (died 1983)
Roberta Flack, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2025)
Theodore Antoniou, Greek composer and conductor (died 2018)
Barbara Maier Gustern, American vocal coach and singer (died 2022)
Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet (died 2024)
Faramarz Payvar, Iranian musician and composer (died 2009)
Richard Schickel, American journalist, author, and critic (died 2017)
Barrie Ingham, English-American actor (died 2015)
James West, American inventor and acoustician
E. L. Konigsburg, American author and illustrator (died 2013)
Robert Wagner, American actor and producer
Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (died 2004)
Jim Whittaker, American mountaineer
Lou Whittaker, American mountaineer (died 2024)
Leontyne Price, American operatic soprano
Sidney Bryan Berry, American general (died 2013)
Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish soldier, footballer and manager (died 1993)
Pierre Mondy, French actor and director (died 2012)
Max Ferguson, Canadian radio host and actor (died 2013)
Bud Poile, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2005)
Allie Sherman, American football player and coach (died 2015)
Árpád Göncz, Hungarian author, playwright, and politician, 1st President of Hungary (died 2015)
José Gabriel da Costa, Brazilian spiritual leader, founder of the União do Vegetal (died 1971)
José Manuel Castañón, Spanish lawyer and author (died 2001)
Alex Comfort, English physician and author (died 2000)
Neva Patterson, American actress (died 2010)
Ioannis Charalambopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (died 2014)
Vladimir Zeldin, Russian actor (died 2016)
Larry Adler, American harmonica player, composer, and actor (died 2001)
Dominique Pire, Belgian friar, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1969)
Min Thu Wun, Burmese poet, scholar, and politician (died 2004)
Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and educator (died 2000)
Anthony Cottrell, New Zealand rugby player (died 1988)
Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (died 1973)
Walter A. Brown, American businessman, founded the Boston Celtics (died 1964)
Chick Webb, American drummer and bandleader (died 1939)
John Farrow, Australian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1963)
Waldemar Hoven, German physician (died 1948)
Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer and manager (died 1939)
Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1987)
Stella Adler, American actress and educator (died 1992)
Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (died 1982)
Bertolt Brecht, German director, playwright, and poet (died 1956)
Joseph Kessel, French journalist and author (died 1979)
Judith Anderson, Australian actress (died 1992)
John Franklin Enders, American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1985)
Harold Macmillan, English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1986)
Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer, and pianist (died 1980)
Bill Tilden, American tennis player and coach (died 1953)
Alan Hale Sr., American actor and director (died 1950)
Fanny Kaplan, Ukrainian-Russian activist (died 1918)
Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator Nobel Prize laureate (died 1960)
Giuseppe Ungaretti, Egyptian-Italian soldier, journalist, and poet (died 1970)
Edith Clarke, American electrical engineer (died 1959)
H. V. Hordern, Australian cricketer (died 1938)
Pauline Brunius, Swedish actress and director (died 1954)
Ernst Põdder, Estonian general (died 1932)
Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (died 1948)
Prince Waldemar of Prussia (died 1879)
William Allen White, American journalist and author (died 1944)
Robert Garran, Australian lawyer and public servant (died 1957)
Alexandre Millerand, French lawyer and politician, 12th President of France (died 1943)
Nabinchandra Sen, Bangladeshi poet and author (died 1909)
Lord Charles Beresford, Irish admiral and politician (died 1919)
Ira Remsen, American chemist and academic (died 1927)
Adelina Patti, Italian-French opera singer (died 1919)
Agnes Mary Clerke, Irish astronomer and author (died 1907)
Julius von Szymanowski, Russian surgeon of Polish-German origin (died 1868)
Samuel Plimsoll, English merchant and politician (died 1898)
Roberto Bompiani, Italian painter and sculptor (died 1908)
George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall (died 1883)
Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French painter and academic (died 1858)
Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (died 1836)
Charles Lamb, English poet and essayist (died 1834)
Benjamin Smith Barton, American botanist and physician (died 1815)
Johann Melchior Molter, German violinist and composer (died 1765)
Aaron Hill, English poet and playwright (died 1750)
Cornelis de Bie, Flemish poet and jurist (died 1715)
John Suckling, English poet and playwright (died 1642)
Christine of France, Duchess of Savoy (died 1663)
Domenico Bollani, Bishop of Milan (died 1579)
Thomas Platter, Swiss author and scholar (died 1582)
George of the Palatinate, German bishop (died 1529)
Peter Tuiasosopo, American football player and actor (born 1963)
AKA, South African rapper (born 1988)
Olsen Filipaina, New Zealand rugby league player (born 1957)
Larry Flynt, American publisher (born 1942)
Carmen Argenziano, American actor (born 1943)
Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (born 1944)
Mike Ilitch, American businessman (born 1929)
Fatima Surayya Bajia, Indian-Pakistani author and playwright (born 1930)
Naseer Aruri, Palestinian scholar and activist (born 1934)
Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal and theologian (born 1928)
Deng Liqun, Chinese theorist and politician (born 1915)
Stuart Hall, Jamaican-English sociologist and theorist (born 1932)
Shirley Temple, American actress and diplomat (born 1928)
W. Watts Biggers, American author, screenwriter, and animator (born 1927)
David Hartman, American-Israeli rabbi and philosopher, founded the Shalom Hartman Institute (born 1931)
Lloyd Morrison, New Zealand banker and businessman, founded H. R. L. Morrison & Co (born 1957)
Jeffrey Zaslow, American journalist and author (born 1958)
Trevor Bailey, English cricketer and journalist (born 1923)
Fred Schaus, American basketball player and coach (born 1925)
Charles Wilson, American lieutenant and politician (born 1933)
Roy Scheider, American actor and boxer (born 1932)
James Yancey, American record producer and rapper (born 1974)
Arthur Miller, American actor, playwright, and author (born 1915)
Edgar de Evia, Mexican-American photographer (born 1910)
Albert J. Ruffo, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of San Jose (born 1908)
Ron Ziegler, American politician, 14th White House Press Secretary (born 1939)
Dave Van Ronk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1936)
Abraham Beame, American academic and politician, 104th Mayor of New York City (born 1906)
Buddy Tate, American saxophonist and clarinet player (born 1913)
Jim Varney, American actor, comedian and writer (born 1949)
Brian Connolly, Scottish musician (born 1945)
Paul Monette, American author, poet, and activist (born 1945)
Fred Hollows, New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist and academic (born 1929)
Alex Haley, American soldier, journalist, and author (born 1921)
Edvard Kardelj, Slovene general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia (born 1910)
Nikos Kavvadias, Greek sailor and poet (born 1910)
Dionysios Kokkinos, Greek historian and author (born 1884)
Billy Rose, American composer and songwriter (born 1899)
Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (born 1898)
Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (born 1867)
Leonora Speyer, American poet and violinist (born 1872)
Emmanouil Tsouderos, Greek banker and politician, 132nd Prime Minister of Greece (born 1882)
Marcel Mauss, French sociologist and anthropologist (born 1872)
Anacleto Díaz, Filipino lawyer and jurist (born 1878)
E. M. Antoniadi, Greek-French astronomer and chess player (born 1870)
Pope Pius XI (born 1857)
Edgar Wallace, English author and screenwriter (born 1875)
José Sánchez del Río, Mexican martyr and saint (born 1913)
Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1845)
Henry Strangways, English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of South Australia (born 1832)
Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman sultan (born 1842)
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1833)
John William Waterhouse, English painter (born 1849)
Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek long jumper (born 1888)
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, English surgeon and academic (born 1827)
Ezra Butler Eddy, American-Canadian businessman and politician (born 1827)
John A. Roche, American lawyer and politician, 30th Mayor of Chicago (born 1844)
Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian-Swedish mathematician and physicist (born 1850)
Ellen Wood, English author (born 1814)
Honoré Daumier, French illustrator and painter (born 1808)
Heinrich Lenz, Estonian-Italian physicist and academic (born 1804)
David Thompson, English-Canadian surveyor and explorer (born 1770)
José Joaquín de Herrera, Mexican politician and general (born 1792)
Maria Aletta Hulshoff, Dutch feminist and pamphleteer (born 1781)
Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and author (born 1799)
Peter Heywood, British naval officer (born 1772)
Pope Leo XII (born 1760)
Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian and author (born 1702)
Montesquieu, French lawyer and philosopher (born 1689)
Henriette of France, French Princess (born1727)
William Dugdale, English genealogist and historian (born 1605)
Judith Leyster, Dutch painter (born 1609)
Wilhelm Xylander, German scholar, translator, and academic (born 1532)
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots (born 1545)
John V, Count of Oldenburg, German noble (born 1460)
Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria (born 1468)
Frederick II, Margrave of Brandenburg (born 1413)
Blessed Clare of Rimini (born 1282)
Temür Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan (born 1265)
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Emperor Shijō of Japan (born 1231)
Baldwin III of Jerusalem (born 1130)
William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (born 1071)
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Christian feast day: Scholastica
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Kurdish Authors Union Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)
National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe (Italy)
Arabian Leopard Day