- 1993 – A massive deficit-reduction bill was signed into law by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
- 1994 – U.S. President Clinton claimed presidential immunity when he asked a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones.
- 1995 – Norma McCorvey, “Jane Roe” of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, announced that she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.
- 1999 – Near an India-Pakistan border area an Indian fighter jet shot down a Pakistani naval aircraft. Sixteen people were killed.
- 2003 – Ekaterina Dmitriev and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko were married. Malenchenko was about 240 miles above the earth in the international space station. It was the first-ever marriage from space.2009 – Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia’s history.
- 2012 – The Marikana massacre begins near Rustenburg, South Africa, resulting in the deaths of 47 people.
- 2014 – Forty people are killed when Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport.
- 2019 – 32 are killed and 1,000,000 are evacuated as Typhoon Lekima makes landfall in Zhejiang, China. Earlier it had caused flooding in the Philippines.
Celebrating BIrthday Today
- 1981 – Taufik Hidayat, Indonesian badminton player
- 1982 – John Alvbåge, Swedish footballer
- 1982 – Josh Anderson, American baseball player
- 1982 – Julia Melim, Brazilian actress
- 1983 – Kyle Brown, American soccer player
- 1983 – C. B. Dollaway, American mixed martial artist
- 1983 – Héctor Faubel, Spanish motorcycle racer
- 1983 – Alexander Perezhogin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1983 – Mathieu Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1984 – Ryan Eggold, American actor and composer
- 1984 – Mokomichi Hayami, Japanese model and actor
- 1984 – Jigar Naik, English cricketer
- 1985 – Melissa Barrera, American television host
- 1985 – Enrico Cortese, Italian footballer
- 1985 – Roy O’Donovan, Irish footballer
- 1985 – Kakuryū Rikisaburō, Mongolian sumo wrestler
- 1985 – Julia Skripnik, Estonian tennis player
- 1986 – Andrea Hlaváčková, Czech tennis player
- 1987 – Jim Bakkum, Dutch singer and actor
- 1987 – Ari Boyland, New Zealand actor and singer
- 1989 – Sam Gagner, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1989 – Ben Sahar, Israeli footballer
- 1989 – Brenton Thwaites, Australian actor
- 1990 – Cruze Ah-Nau, Australian rugby player
- 1991 – Marcus Foligno, American-Canadian ice hockey player
- 1991 – Chris Tremain, Australian cricketer
- 1991 – Dagný Brynjarsdóttir, Icelandic footballer
- 1991 – Nikos Korovesis, Greek footballer
- 1992 – Chanel Simmonds, South African tennis player
- 1992 – Oliver Rowland, English race car driver
- 1992 – Go Ah-sung, South Korean actress
- 1993 – Andre Drummond, American basketball player
- 1993 – Yuto Nakajima, Japanese actor, dancer, model, singer, and idol
- 1993 – Shin Hye-jeong, South Korean singer
- 1994 – Bernardo Silva, Portuguese footballer
- 1996 – Lauren Tait, Scottish netball player[
- 1997 – Kylie Jenner, American television personality and model