Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.

A violent F5 tornado strikes around Brownwood, Texas, injuring 11 people. Two people were thrown at least 1,000 yards (910 m) by the tornado and survived uninjured.

The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Seventy-six Davidians, including 18 children under age 10, died in the fire.

The Treaty of Frankfurt between Protestants and the Holy Roman Emperor is signed.

The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.

Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961.

The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guarantees its neutrality.

Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Raqqa (northern Syria).

The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.

The Jaffa riots commence, initiating the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.

Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for conspiracy in the Tate–LaBianca murders.

Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of six.

Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.

The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel.

The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all of the conspirators are arrested.

A killing spree in Nova Scotia, Canada, leaves 22 people and the perpetrator dead, making it the deadliest rampage in the country's history.

A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.

Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.

An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.

Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-100 carrying the Canadarm2 to the International Space Station.