** Bolshevik forces defeat Basmachi troops under Enver Pasha.

** Enver Pasha

** Arzu Enver Hanımsultan ( b. 1955 ), married Aslan Sadıkoğlu

** Hyder Enver

** The Social Revolutionary Party declares Belarus independent ; Bolshevik armies soon crush them.

** Belarus declares independence.

** Czechoslovakia declares its independence from Austria-Hungary.

** Ruthenia in eastern Czechoslovakia declares a brief independence.

** Poland declares its independence from Russia.

** Provisional National Council Minister-President Kurt Eisner declares Bavaria to be a republic.

** Hungary declares independence from Austria.

** The Parliament of Finland again declares itself holder of sovereignty, effectively dissolving the 108-year-old union with Russia.

** Finland officially declares independence from Russia.

** The World Health Organization declares tuberculosis a Global Emergency.

** The Kuomintang regime declares Taiwan under martial law.

** WWII – Sweden declares non-belligerency in the Winter War.

** Finland declares war on the Axis powers.

** Argentinian labour leader José Peter declares the Federación Obrera de la Industria de la Carne dissolved.

** The Soviet Union declares war on Japan.

** Dutch East Indies campaign: Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Dutch East Indies.

** WWII: Mexico declares war on Germany, Italy and Japan.

** The United Kingdom declares war on Finland.

** Canada declares war on Japan.

** British India declares war on the Empire of Japan.

** The government of Haiti declares a state of siege, under which it suspends civil liberties, imposes censorship, and arrests political opponents.

** Cold War: Lithuania declares independence from the Soviet Union with the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.

** Cold War: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.

** The Serbian Democratic Party declares the sovereignty of the Serbs in Croatia.

** People's Republic of China

** Youth Day ( People's Republic of China )

** President of the Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea: Ri Kwang-gon ( since April 2009 )

** V-J Day ( People's Republic of China )

** Toronto Film Festival People's Choice Award Winner

** France and the People's Republic of China announce their decision to establish diplomatic relations.

** The Republic of China ( Taiwan ) drops diplomatic relations with France because of French recognition of the People's Republic of China.

** The People's Republic of China explodes an atomic bomb in Sinkiang.

** Ten-Day War ( 1991 ) – a brief military conflict between Slovenian TO ( Slovenian Territorial Defence ) and the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) following Slovenia's declaration of independence.

** Croatian War of Independence ( 1991 – 1995 ) – the war fought in hegh town Croatia between the Croatian government, having declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and both the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) and Serb forces, who established the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) within Croatia.

** The People's Dispensary for Sick Animals is founded in the United Kingdom.

** Jiang Zemin becomes President of the People's Republic of China.

** Yemeni parliamentary election, 1993: The General People's Congress wins a plurality of 121 seats.

** The National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China creates a new Chongqing Municipality, out of part of Sichuan.

** The First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference approves a design for the Flag of the People's Republic of China.

** People's Democracy begins a march from Belfast to Derry, Northern Ireland in support of civil rights.

** A grassroots movement of Berkeley community members seizes an empty lot owned by the University of California to begin the formation of " People's Park ".

** Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China

** Critic and commentator Alexander Woollcott suffers an eventually fatal heart attack during a regular broadcast of the CBS Radio roundtable program " People's Platform ".

** Zhou Ji, education minister of the People's Republic of China

** Cold War: The leaders of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen announce the unification of their countries as the Republic of Yemen.

** Yang Shangkun, former President of the People's Republic of China ( b. 1907 )