Bombings in Baghdad kill 127 people.

The outlaw, Jesse James commits his first bank robbery in Missouri.

A coal mine explosion in West Virginia, USA kills 362 workers.

A combination of a cold fog combined with air pollution in London kills at least 12,000 in the months that follow.

Two members of the Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are killed in their sleep during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers.

A chemical leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people.

Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of France, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.

A right-wing military rebel group from the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino. They failed.