Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Flight 800 explodes, killing all on board.

The Atomic Age begins with the Manhattan Project when the United States detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear bomb at the Trinity test site near Alamogordo…

Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders on board the HMS Bellerophon.

Pat Garrett shots Billy the Kid outside Fort Sumner.

In Los Angeles, The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated above Hollywood.

At the Marquee Club in London, the rock band, Rolling Stones perform their first concert.

In a series of bombing on trains, 209 people are killed in Mumbai, India.

Silence Day is observed in commemoration of Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years on this day.

The New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act that legalizes homosexuality.

The First Crusade in which over15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in a procession around Jerusalem while its Muslim defenders look on.