The Battle of La Victoria takes place.

The Space Shuttle Discovery launches to service the Hubble Space Telescope.

The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales. Eighty two people were…

Fort Rocher is captured during the Anglo-Spanish War.

Cardinal József Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced for treason.

The European Union is formed with the signing of the Maastricht Treaty is signed.

New Zealand is established as British Colony with the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.

The Astronauts from Apollo 14 land on the moon.

An earthquake in Guatemala and Honduras kills more than 22000 people.

The Irish rebel Silken Thomas (Thomas FitzGerald, the 10th Earl of Kildare) is executed by the order of Henry VIII for starting a revolution.