- 1991 – At the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California, the first web server outside of Europe was installed.
- 1994 – The Brazilian Supreme Court acquitted former President Fernando Collor de Mello of corruption charges that had forced him to resign in 1992.
- 1994 – IBM stopped shipments of personal computers with Intel’s flawed Pentium chip.
- 1995 – The U.S. Senate stopped a constitutional amendment giving Congress authority to outlaw flag burning and other forms of desecration against the American flag.
- 1995 – Two French airmen shot down over Bosnia arrived home after almost four months of being held captive by the Bosnian Serbs.
- 1997 – Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the international terrorist known as “Carlos the Jackal,” went on trial in Paris on charges of killing two French investigators and a Lebanese national. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
- 1997 – The U.S. Justice Department ordered Microsoft to sell its Internet browser separately from its Windows operating system to prevent it from building a monopoly of Web access programs.
- 1997 – Denver Pyle received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- 1998 – The House Judiciary Committee rejected censure, and approved the final article of impeachment against U.S. President Clinton. The case was submitted to the full House for a verdict.
- 2000 – The U.S. Supreme Court found that the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court in the 2000 U.S. Presidential election was unconstitutional. U.S. Vice President Al Gore conceded the election to Texas Gov. George W. Bush the next day.
- 2000 – Timothy McVeigh, over the objections of his lawyers, abandoned his final round of appeals and asked that his execution be set within 120 days. McVeigh was convicted of the April 1995 truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Fedal Building in Oklahoma City, OK, that killed 168 and injured 500.
- 2000 – The Texas Rangers signed Alex Rodriguez to a record breaking 10-year, $252 million contract. The contract amount broke all major league baseball records and all professional sports records.
- 2001 – The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would implement minimum federal election standards and provide funding to help states modernize their voting systems.
- 2001 – Gerardo Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison for being the leader of a Cuban spy ring. His conviction was based on his role in the infiltration of U.S. military bases and in the deaths of four Cuban-Americans whose planes were shot down five years before.
- 2001 – In Beverly Hills, CA, actress Winona Ryder was arrested at Saks Fifth Avenue for shoplifting and possessing pharmaceutical drugs without a prescription. The numerous items of clothing and hair accessories were valued at $4,760.
- 2002 – North Korea announced that it would reactivate a nuclear power plant that U.S. officials believed was being used to develop weapons.
- 2012 – North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2.
- 2015 – The Paris Agreement relating to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is adopted.
Celebrating Birthday Today
- 1981 – Pedro Ríos, Spanish footballer
- 1981 – Yuvraj Singh, Indian cricketer
- 1981 – Stephen Warnock, English footballer
- 1982 – Dmitry Tursunov, Russian tennis player
- 1983 – Roni Porokara, Finnish footballer
- 1984 – Daniel Agger, Danish footballer
- 1985 – Pat Calathes, Greek-American basketball player
- 1986 – Daddy Birori, Rwandan footballer
- 1986 – Përparim Hetemaj, Finnish footballer
- 1986 – Nina Kolarič, Slovenian long jumper
- 1986 – T. J. Ward, American football player
- 1988 – Isaac John, New Zealand rugby league player
- 1990 – Nixon Chepseba, Kenyan runner
- 1990 – Dawin, American singer-songwriter
- 1991 – Joseph Leilua, Australian-Samoan rugby league player
- 1993 – Zeli Ismail, English footballer
- 1994 – Otto Warmbier, American student imprisoned in North Korea (d. 2017)