On Our Selection, considered to be the first real Australian play, opens in Sydney to rave reviews. The first general strike in British history begins. It's called by the Trades Union Congress and troops are called in to man essential services. The US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded. Mobster Al Capone is convicted of income-tax evasion and jailed at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta.
Japanese bombers inflict thousands of casualties in Chungking, China.
Four students protesting against Vietnam War are killed by US National Guard at Kent State University, Ohio. Yugoslav strongman Josip Broz Tito dies. British destroyer Sheffield sunk by Argentine plane off the Falklands. At Haymarket Square in Chicago, a labour demonstration for an eight-hour work day turns into a riot when a bomb explodes. Iraqi warplanes bomb Iranian oil refinery and petrochemical plant, increasing pressure on Iran's economy.