In Melbourne, Australia, a car bomb explodes at the Russell Street Police HQ killing one police officer and injuring 21 people.

The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.

Sir Walter Raleigh is awarded a patent to colonize Virginia.

A fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel in the western Alps of Europe kills 39 people.

The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers in Dunedin, New Zealand carrying the first Scottish settlers.

Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach in California are charged with satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges were…

Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico, are shot by a police squad acting under orders of the USA appointed Governor, Blanton Winship.

The general theory of relativity is first published by Albert Einstein.

The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened to traffic.

The War Relocation Authority is set up in the USA to take Japanese Americans into custody.