Vincent van Gogh shoots himself with a gun and dies two days later.

The Greek Prime Minister forms the country’s first civil government after 7 years of military rule.

A series of nine bombs exploded in which two people were killed and 20 injured in Bangalore.

Between 400 and 3,000 are killed in anti-Tamil riots, beginning the Sri Lankan Civil War.

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) makes a decision to end commercial whaling by 1986.

In Atlanta, Georgia, the Confederate general John Bell Hood leads a failed attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman.

The world’s lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at ?89.2 °C.

The Chinese Communist Party starts a persecution campaign against Falun Gong.

The Great Fire of Rome begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control.

France and England agree to the Truce of Leulinghem during the Hundred Years’ War.