John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
World War II: No. 603 Squadron RAF intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain.
The Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
Republic of the Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and the Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom.
Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II after the October 1978 Papal conclave, the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.
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