The World's Fair, with the newly built Eiffel Tower, opens in Paris. France's President Paul Doumer is murdered by a Russian anarchist. Josef Stalin becomes Soviet premier, succeeding V.M. Molotov. The sister of Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret marries commoner Anthony Armstrong-Jones in London's Westminster Abbey. The worst street fighting in Paris since the end of World War II shakes the Left Bank as students and police fight for control of fashionable Boulevard St Germain.
Fighting breaks out between South Yemen and Oman.
West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns after an aide is arrested on charges of spying for East Germany. An earthquake strikes the northern Italian town Udine, killing 973 people and leaving over 100,000 homeless. The United States expels all Libyan diplomats, citing Libyan government support for international terrorism. In Germany, diaries supposedly written by dictator Adolf Hitler and published by Stern Magazine and the Sunday Times are declared fakes. Chinese students in Tiananmen Square send new appeal to government for dialogue on their demands for democracy.