Eighteen people are killed and 78 injured in a stampede at a Mardi Gras parade in Haiti. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Haiti_Carnival_stampede’]

Hezbollah is founded. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah’]

The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.

Australian currency is decimalized. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimalisation’]

Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls’]

The Soviet Union launches Venera 1 towards Venus. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_1′]

Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle’]

Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagalla_massacre’]

Halley’s Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley%27s_Comet’]

Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh_Crusade’]