April 6: The assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira triggers the Rwandan genocide. October 23: Brazilian inventor Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off and flies his 14-bis to a crowd in Paris.

Nixon shock removes gold back-up for the US Dollar triggering export of inflation from rich to poor nations. December 20: The passenger ferry MV Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker MT Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (history's worst peacetime maritime disaster).

October 4: Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside. November 30: Michael Jackson releases his landmark album Thriller, the best-selling album of all time.

November – December: Tehran Conference between Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin agrees to launch Operation Overlord. Made to look similar to the actual hockey jersey that Clark wears in the classic holiday film, this tee shirt is sure to be a hit this holiday season. September 8: The Treaty of San Francisco ends the Occupation of Japan and formally concludes hostilities between Japan and the US.March 21: The Sharpeville Massacre, in which the police opened fire against a protesting crowd at a police station in the South African township of Sharpeville in Transvaal, resulting in 69 deaths and 180 injuries. July 1: The Kuomintang begins the Northern Expedition, a military unification campaign in northern China. June 25: The rainbow flag of the LGBT movement flies for the first time (in its original form) at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.

November 28: NASA launches the Mariner 4 space probe from Cape Kennedy toward Mars to take television pictures of that planet in July 1965. June 30 – July 2: Adolf Hitler instigates the Night of the Long Knives, which cements his power over both the Nazi Party and Germany. August 20: Beginning of the Iran–Contra affair, a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration involving the sale of arms to the Khomeini government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. May – June: Nazis invade Denmark and Norway, followed by Belgium, the Netherlands and France; their governments (except Denmark) are exiled to the United Kingdom.Beginning of the Asian flu in China, leading to a worldwide pandemic that lasts until the following year. April 30: The Canonization of Faustina Kowalska occurs in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide. July 29: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of the Nazi Party as hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic begins. September – October: The Race to the Sea leaves Germany and the Allies entrenched along the Western Front. July 20: Apollo 11 Moon landing, in which Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first two humans on the Moon.

November 2: International Space Station begins operations; its first crew, composed of three men, arrives.December 3: Tori Murden becomes the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat alone, when she reaches Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands. To enable personalized advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. September 26: A coup ends the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen, establishing the Yemen Arab Republic and starting the North Yemen Civil War. It includes events such as the exile of Haile Selassie and the conquest of Abyssinia by Benito Mussolini.