Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 disappeared with 239 people on board.
The hashtag #5secondsofsummer trended worldwide for the first time on Twitter.
The United States military banned smoking in the workplace.
The Zodiac Killer shot his first victim Mario Orosco.
The world's richest tennis player, Martina Navratilova, became the first to make $10 million.
The first official rock festival took place in the Soviet Union.
Many volcanoes were discovered on one of planet Jupiter's moons called Io.
Philips demonstrated the compact disc publicly for the first time.
The first International Women's Day was celebrated.
Volkswagen's iconic Type 2 Kombi first began production.
The Dutch East Indies colony surrendered the island of Java to Imperial Japanese forces.
The tone poem Don Quixote by Richard Strauss premiered in Cologne, Germany.
The New York Stock Exchange was founded.
Queen Anne became Queen of England after King William III died.
