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The American League of Colored Laborers, the first African American labor union in the United States, is established in New York City.
Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.
Arsenal and Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen
Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
Melbourne–Evans collision: off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half; resulting in 74 deaths.
East African Airways Flight 720 crashes during a rejected takeoff from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, killing 43.
Rioting spreads to Miami's mostly African-American neighborhoods of Overtown and Liberty City following the previous day's courthouse protests.
The Organisation of African Unity is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
March Against Fear: African-American civil rights activist James Meredith is wounded in an ambush by white sniper James Aubrey Norvell. Meredith and Norvell are photographed by Jack R. Thornell, whose�
The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
The Central African Republic's former emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
World War II: Last German U-boat attack of the war, two freighters are sunk off the Firth of Forth, Scotland.
World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland.
Jerrie Mock completes the first around-the-world airplane flight by a woman. Her solo flight in the Spirit of Columbus, which took 29 1/2 days, took off and landed at the Port Columbus International A�
Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by UMkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others.
South Africa's government approves of racial separation in universities.
Daniel François Malan is elected as Prime Minister of South Africa. He later goes on to implement Apartheid.
The East Indiaman Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, in present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.
Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.