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Frank Eugene Corder fatally crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing. There were no other casualties.
The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh.
American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, whereby Austria cedes lands south of the Sava and Danube rivers to the Ottoman Empire.
South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea with his jet fighter.
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes South Khorasan in Iran, killing over 500 people.
The 2016 South Australian blackout occurs, lasting up to three days in some areas.
Two Avro Ansons collide in mid-air over New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together, then land safely.
The Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus, and capture their baggage train.
A United States-South Korea mutual defense treaty is concluded in Washington, D.C.
President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for an Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu is re-elected in a one-man election.
Gaecheonjeol, Hwanung (환웅) purportedly descended from heaven. South Korea's National Foundation Day.
South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma, but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.
Soviet republics sign the Treaty of Kars to formalize the borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
The body of Communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg is found in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery.