The First Winter Ascent of the Eiger north face takes place.

Sixteen students are killed and 11 are injured before recent-graduate Tim Kretschmer shoots and kills himself at Winnenden school, leading to tightened weapons restrictions in…

The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front as part of the Greek Civil War.

The Barbie doll first makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.

Johannes Kepler finds the third law of planetary motion.

Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.

The first of the East Los Angeles walkouts occur at several high schools.

A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.

Finland declares war on Nazi Germany – starting the Lapland War

A suffrage parade march takes place in Washington, D.C.