** Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni wins a landslide victory in the country's first direct presidential elections, securing 75 % of the vote.

** Entebbe Raid: Israeli airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian hijackers of an Air France plane at Uganda's Entebbe Airport ; 1 Israeli soldier and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in the raid.

** John Mugabi, Ugandan boxer and world Junior Middleweight champion

** Ugandan army troops arrest Mutesa II of Buganda and occupy his palace.

** Paulo Muwanga, Ugandan military officer and statesman, former head of State and Prime Minister ( b. 1924 )

** Ugandan Musk Shrew, Crocidura mutesae

** Ugandan Lowland Shrew, Crocidura selina

** Dexter a male Ugandan Kob ( Adenota kob thomasi-Bovidæ ); sinister, a Crested Crane ( Balearica pavonina gibberifrons-Balearicidæ ), both proper.

** Ugandan Adoption Agent

** 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 ".

** Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania, with himself as prime minister.

** 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 )

** Amicus Brief on the Merits ( American Jewish Congress, American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League, and Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America )

** Congressional-executive agreements are made by the president or Congress.

** Reinterpreted after the 1891 Civil War augmenting the power of the National Congress of Chile

** Official Indian National Congress Web Site

** Lack of voting representation in either House of the U. S. Congress, as the US Constitution provides these rights only to full states.

** The Congress Party gains a parliamentary majority in India after the defection of 10 Janata Dal party lawmakers.

** Quit India resolution is passed by the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee ( AICC ), which led to the start of a historical civil disobedience movement across India.

** Nehru is elected leader of the Congress Party in India.

** President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt's " Infamy " Address to a Joint Session of Congress at 12: 30 p. m. EST ( 17. 30 GMT ) and transmitted live over all four major national networks attracts the largest audience ever for an American radio broadcast, over 81 % of homes.

** South Africa's National Party pulls out of the 2-year-old coalition government, and the African National Congress assumes full political control.

** Apartheid: The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a statement by their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.

** Idaho Territory is organized by the U. S. Congress.

** President Dwight Eisenhower gives his final State of the Union Address to Congress.

** The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) and the Canadian Labour Congress.

** The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is established by the 5 Latinos in the United States Congress: Herman Badillo of the Bronx, E. de la Garza and Henry B. Gonzalez of Texas, Edward R. Roybal of California, and the nonvoting Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, Baltasar Corrada del Rio.

** President of Peru Alberto Fujimori issues Decree Law 25418, dissolving the Congress of the Republic of Peru, imposing censorship and having opposition politicians arrested, setting off the 1992 Peruvian constitutional crisis.

** In Ciskei, members of the Ciskei Defence Force loyal to dictator Oupa Gqozo open into a crowd of anti-Gqozo protestors organized by the African National Congress, killing at least 28 people and wounding nearly 200.

** Syrian National Congress proclaim Syria independent with Faisal I of Iraq as king.

** The U. S. Congress passes a bill for the creation of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.

** The AFL-NFL merger is approved by the U. S. Congress.

** Under the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D. C., a new planned city and capital of the United States, was placed under the jurisdiction of the U. S. Congress.

** In Sebokeng, South Africa, gunmen fire on mourners attending the funeral of a leader of the African National Congress, killing 13 people.

** In South Africa, Nelson Mandela of the African National Congress and Mangosuthu Buthelezi of the Inkatha Freedom Party agree to end the violence that had plagued relations between the two organizations.