The city of Melbourne is founded in Australia.

The Goodyear tire company is founded.

Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales divorce.

Hurricane Irene strikes land on the United States east coast. Forty seven are killed.

Albino Luciani is elected as Pope John Paul I.

The New York Sun carries out the Great Moon Hoax.

The Panic of 1857 starts and sets off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history.

In Stockholm, Sweden a bank robbery that went wrong results in a hostage crisis. The hostages begin to sympathize with their captors, leading to the…

First sighting of a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.

The Soviet ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States.