While rescuing four captives in central Gaza, Israeli soldiers killed 247 Palestinians and injured 698.
Former US President Donald Trump was formally accused of mishandling classified documents.
Dr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.
Cristiano Ronaldo topped Forbes' Highest-Paid Athletes List, becoming the first soccer player to do so.
Two American journalists were sentenced to 12 years of penal labor after illegally entering North Korea.
World Oceans Day was celebrated for the first time.
New Zealand becomes a nuclear-free zone.
New South Wales, Australia, celebrated the first day of homosexuality being legal.
Nick Út takes his famous 'napalm girl' photo.
Senator Robert Kennedy was laid to rest.
Soviet spacecraft Luna 6, destined for a moon landing, failed after flying right past it.
The United States Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in Washington, DC, could not refuse to serve Black patrons.
George Orwell publishes Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The discovery of the chemical element Neptunium was announced.
Carl Orff's Carmina Burana is premiered.
Margaret Bondfield became the first female cabinet minister in the UK.
Herman Hollerith patents his punch card calculator.
The sweeping machine (vacuum cleaner) was patented in Chicago, US, by Ives W. McGaffey.
Noah Cushing patented the washing machine in Quebec, Canada.
A violent eight-month volcano eruption in Iceland started.
Edward the Confessor was crowned King of England. He was considered the last king of the House of Wessex.
The King of France, Louis V, was crowned.
