- 1991 – Soviet hard-liners announced that President Mikhail Gorbachev had been removed from power. Gorbachev returned to power two days later.
- 1998 – The first piece of the 351 foot bronze statue of Christopher Columbus arrived in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- 1999 – Lorne Michaels received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- 1999 – In Belgrade, thousands of Serbs attended a rally to demand the resignation of Yugoslavia’s President Slobodan Milosevic.
- 2004 – Google Inc. stock began selling on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The initial price was set at $85 and ended the day at $100.34 with more than 22 million shares traded.
- 2016 – A federal judge ordered Hillary Clinton to answer questions from the watchdog group Judicial Watch in writing about her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.
- 2017 – Tens of thousands of farmed non-native Atlantic salmon are accidentally released into the wild in Washington waters in the 2017 Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break.
Celebrating Birthday Today
- 1981 – Nick Kennedy, English rugby player
- 1981 – Percy Watson, American football player and wrestler
- 1982 – J. J. Hardy, American baseball player
- 1982 – Kevin Rans, Belgian pole vaulter
- 1982 – Stipe Miocic, American professional mixed martial artist
- 1983 – Mike Conway, English race car driver
- 1983 – Missy Higgins, Australian singer-songwriter
- 1983 – John McCargo, American football player
- 1984 – Simon Bird, English actor and screenwriter
- 1984 – Alessandro Matri, Italian footballer
- 1984 – Ryan Taylor, English footballer
- 1985 – David A. Gregory, American actor
- 1985 – Gavin Cooper, Australian rugby league player
- 1985 – Lindsey Jacobellis, American snowboarder
- 1986 – Sotiris Balafas, Greek footballer
- 1986 – Saori Kimura, Japanese volleyball player
- 1986 – Christina Perri, American singer and songwriter
- 1987 – Nick Driebergen, Dutch swimmer
- 1987 – Nico Hülkenberg, German race car driver
- 1987 – Anaïs Lameche, French-Swedish singer
- 1987 – Richard Stearman, English footballer
- 1988 – Hoodie Allen, American rapper
- 1988 – Kirk Cousins, American football player
- 1988 – Veronica Roth, American author
- 1989 – Romeo Miller, American basketball player, rapper, actor
- 1990 – Danny Galbraith, Scottish footballer
- 1994 – Guadalupe Pérez Rojas, Argentinian tennis player
- 1994 – Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian pentathlete and heptathlete
- 1994 – Fernando Gaviria, Colombian cyclist[
- 1995 – Dylan Phythian, Australian rugby league player
- 1996 – Hsu Ching-wen, Taiwanese tennis player