Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of Bangladesh.

Mass riots in Kolkata begin; more than 4,000 people would be killed in 72 hours.

Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel.

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as “Carlos the Jackal”, is captured

Two young women became the first fatal victims of grizzly bear attacks in the 57-year history of Montana’s Glacier National Park in separate incidents

South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country’s racist policies.

The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country’s worst oil spill.

Forty people are killed when Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport.

Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.

Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer…