- 1992 – IBM announced it would eliminate 25-thousand employees in the coming year.
- 1992 – Bettino Craxi, the leader of Italy’s Socialist Party, was informed that he was under investigation in a burgeoning corruption scandal in the northern city of Milan.
- 1992 – El Salvador’s government and leftist guerrilla leaders formally declared the end of the country’s 12-year civil war.
- 1993 – In Geneva, 117 countries completed the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The countries agreed on a reform package.
- 1993 – The prime ministers of Britain and the Republic of Ireland (John Major and Albert Reynolds respectively) made the “Downing Street Declaration,” stating the basis for trying to achieve peace in Northern Ireland.
- 1995 – The U.N. Security Council authorized NATO to take over the peacekeeping operations in Bosnia.
- 1995 – French rail workers voted to end a three-week-old strike.
- 1996 – Boeing Co. announced plans to pay $13.3 billion to acquire rival aircraft manufacturer McDonnell Douglas Corp.
- 1997 – The San Francisco 49ers retired Joe Montana’s number 16 during halftime of a game against the Denver Broncos.
- 1999 – Syria reopened peace talks with Israel in Washington, DC, with the mediation of U.S. President Clinton.
- 2000 – The Chernobyl atomic power plant in Kiev, Ukraine, was shut down.
- 2000 – New York Senator-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton agreed to accept an $8 million book deal with Simon & Schuster. The book was to be about her eight years in the White House. The advance was the highest ever to be paid to a member of the U.S. Congress.
- 2001 – It was announced that Siena Heights University would begin offering a class called “Animated Philosophy and Religion.” The two-credit class would cover how religion and philosophy are part of popular culture and is based on the television series “The Simpsons.”
- 2010 – The U.N. Security Council gave a vote of confidence to the government of Iraq when they lifted 19-year-old sanctions on weapons and civilian nuclear power.
- 2013 – The South Sudanese Civil War begins when opposition leaders Dr. Riek Machar, Pagan Amum and Rebecca Nyandeng vote to boycott the meeting of the National Liberation Council at Nyakuron.
- 2014 – A gunman takes 18 hostages inside a café in Martin Place for 16 hours in Sydney. Monis and two hostages are killed when police raid the café the following morning.
- 2017 – A 6.5Mw earthquake strikes the Indonesian island of Java in the city of Tasikmalaya, resulting in four deaths.
Celebrating Birthday Today
- 1981 – Michelle Dockery, English actress
- 1981 – Brendan Fletcher, Canadian actor and screenwriter
- 1981 – Andy González, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
- 1981 – Thomas Herrion, American football player (d. 2005)
- 1981 – Roman Pavlyuchenko, Russian footballer
- 1982 – Charlie Cox, English actor
- 1982 – Borja García, Spanish race car driver
- 1982 – Tatiana Perebiynis, Ukrainian tennis player
- 1983 – Delon Armitage, Trinidadian-English rugby player
- 1983 – René Duprée, Canadian professional wrestler
- 1983 – Camilla Luddington, English actress
- 1983 – Ronnie Radke, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1984 – Martyn Bernard, English high jumper
- 1985 – Diogo Fernandes, Brazilian footballer
- 1986 – Kim Junsu, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
- 1986 – Iveta Mazáčová, Czech sprinter
- 1986 – Keylor Navas, Costa Rican footballer
- 1987 – Josh Norman, American football player
- 1986 – Snejana Onopka, Ukrainian model
- 1988 – Emily Head, English actress
- 1988 – Steven Nzonzi, French footballer
- 1989 – Nichole Bloom, American actress and model
- 1991 – Conor Daly, American race car driver
- 1992 – Daiamami Genki, Japanese sumo wrestler
- 1992 – Jesse Lingard, English footballer
- 1992 – Alex Telles, Brazilian footballer
- 1996 – Jenifer Brening, German singer
- 1996 – Oleksandr Zinchenko, Ukrainian footballer
- 1997 – Maude Apatow, American actress
- 1997 – Zach Banks, American race car driver
- 1997 – Magdalena Fręch, Polish tennis player
- 1997 – Stefania LaVie Owen, New Zealand-American actress
- 1998 – Chandler Canterbury, American actor
- 1999 – Amber Joseph, Barbadian cyclist