- 1990 – Elections in Yugoslavia ended, leaving four of its six republics with non-Communist governments.
- 1995 – A fire in Dabwali, India, killed 540 people, including 170 children, during a year-end party being held near the children’s school.
- 1995 – The bodies of 16 members of the Solar Temple religious sect were found in a clearing near Grenoble, France. 14 were presumed shot by two people who then committed suicide.
- 1997 – Terry Nichols was convicted by a Denver jury on charges of conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter in the 1995 federal building bombing in Oklahoma City. The bomb killed 168 people.
- 1998 – Guerrillas in south Lebanon fired dozens of rockets at northern Israel.
- 2002 – A U.S. MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25 in the first combat engagement between a drone and conventional aircraft.
- 2003 – PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.
- 2007 – An agreement is made for the Kingdom of Nepal to be abolished and the country to become a federal republic with the Prime Minister becoming head of state.
- 2015 – A bomb explodes at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport, killing one airport cleaner. The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks claim responsibility for the attack four days later.
Celebrating birthday Today
- 1981 – Maritza Correia, Puerto Rican-American swimmer
- 1981 – Yuriorkis Gamboa, Cuban boxer
- 1981 – Hiro Fujiwara, Japanese manga artist
- 1981 – Agnes Milowka, Polish-Australian diver, explorer, photographer, and author (d. 2011)
- 1981 – Mario Santana, Argentinian footballer
- 1982 – Brad Nelson, American baseball player
- 1982 – Thomas Rohregger, Austrian cyclist
- 1983 – Michael Chopra, English footballer
- 1983 – Lisa Dobriskey, English runner
- 1983 – Hanley Ramírez, Dominican baseball player
- 1984 – Dudu Aharon, Israeli singer-songwriter
- 1984 – Josh Satin, American baseball player
- 1984 – Sebastian Werle, German rugby player
- 1985 – Harry Judd, English drummer and songwriter
- 1986 – Thomas Bourgin, French motorcycle racer (d. 2013)
- 1986 – Beau Champion, Australian rugby league player
- 1986 – Balázs Dzsudzsák, Hungarian footballer
- 1986 – T. J. Oshie, American ice hockey player
- 1987 – Tommaso Bellazzini, Italian footballer
- 1987 – Owen Franks, New Zealand rugby player
- 1988 – Mallory Hagan, Miss America 2013
- 1989 – Liis Koger, Estonian painter and poet
- 1992 – Jeff Schlupp, German footballer
- 1994 – Reed Alexander, American actor
- 1996 – Bartosz Kapustka, Polish footballer
- 2002 – Finn Wolfhard, Canadian actor and musician