The 13-year-old Lothair III is crowned at the Abbey of Saint-Remi as king of the West Frankish Kingdom.

Lothair of FranceAbbey of Saint-RemiWest Francia

Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros.

Byzantine emperorZoe PorphyrogenitaRomanos III Argyros

Battle of Posada: Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army by ambush.

Battle of PosadaBasarab I

Plymouth, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.

PlymouthParliament of England

The Second Statute of Repeal re-establishes Roman Catholicism in England under Queen Mary I.

Second Statute of RepealRoman CatholicismKingdom of EnglandMary I of England

Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.

Jean Sylvain BaillyMayor of ParisGuillotine

William Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.

William HeffelfingerAmerican footballAllegheny Athletic Association

Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj.

Abdur Rahman KhanDurand LineBritish Raj

Norway holds a referendum resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly-independent country.

Norwegian monarchy plebiscite, 1905Parliament of Norway

King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.

George I of GreeceThessaloniki

The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

Robert Falcon ScottRoss Ice Shelf

Austria becomes a republic.

First Austrian Republic

Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.

Kingdom of YugoslaviaTreaty of Rapallo (1920)

Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.

Leon TrotskySoviet Communist PartyJoseph StalinSoviet Union

SS Vestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320 km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.

SS VestrisHampton Roads, Virginia

In California, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

World War II: The Battle of Gabon ends as Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon, and all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy French forces.

World War IIBattle of GabonFree French ForcesLibrevilleGabon

World War II: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrives in Berlin to discuss the possibility of the Soviet Union joining the Axis Powers.

Vyacheslav MolotovGerman-Soviet Axis talks

World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 °C as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.

Soviet UnionSki troops

World War II: The Soviet cruiser Chervona Ukraina is destroyed during the Battle of Sevastopol.

Soviet cruiser Chervona UkrainaBattle of Sevastopol

World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal. The battle lasts for three days and ends with an American victory.

Naval Battle of GuadalcanalGuadalcanal

World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers, which sink the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.

Royal Air ForceAvro LancasterBattleshipGerman battleship TirpitzTallboy bomb

In Tokyo, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.

International Military Tribunal for the Far EastHideki Tojo

Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.

MoroccoSudanTunisia

In the midst of the Suez Crisis, Palestinian refugees are shot dead in Rafah by Israeli soldiers following the invasion of the Gaza Strip.

Suez CrisisRafah massacreGaza Strip

A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.

Warren Harding (climber)The Nose (El Capitan)El CapitanYosemite Valley

Vietnam War: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.

Vietnam WarSeymour HershMy Lai Massacre

The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous "exploding whale" incident.

Oregon Highway DivisionSperm whaleExploding whale

The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall on the coast of East Pakistan becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history.

1970 Bhola cycloneEast Pakistan

Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, US President Richard Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.

VietnamizationRichard NixonVietnam