India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon making India the world's sixth nuclear power joining the existing the 5 existing Nuclear Powers of United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, China, and France. The Nuclear Bomb was a fission bomb similar in explosive power to the U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.

Francois Hollande, France's president, signed the bill making gay marriage legal in the country into law. France became the ninth European country to legalize gay marriage, and the fourteenth in the world to do so. The first gay marriages were set to take place ten days after the signing of the bill.