- 1991 – Nine people died in a rush to get into a basketball game at City College in New York.
- 1995 – Pressure from German prosecutors investigating pornography forced CompuServe to set a precedent by blocking access to sex-oriented newsgroups on the Internet for its customers.
- 2000 – U.S. District Court Judge Matsch held a hearing to ensure that confessed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh understood that he was dropping his appeals. McVeigh said that he wanted an execution date, set but wanted to reserve the right to seek presidential clemency.
- 2006 – War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.
- 2009 – Forty-three people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura.
- 2014 – Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Karimata Strait en route from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people aboard.
- 2014 – Nine people die and another 19 are reported missing, when the MS Norman Atlantic catches fire in the Strait of Otranto, in the Adriatic Sea, in Italian waters.
Celebrating Birthday Today
- 1981 – Narsha, South Korean singer and dancer
- 1981 – Khalid Boulahrouz, Dutch footballer
- 1981 – Elizabeth Jordan Carr, American journalist
- 1981 – Sienna Miller, American-born British actress and fashion designer
- 1981 – Frank Turner, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1981 – Mika Väyrynen, Finnish footballer
- 1982 – François Gourmet, Belgian decathlete
- 1982 – Curtis Glencross, Canadian hockey player
- 1984 – Martin Kaymer, German golfer
- 1984 – Duane Solomon, American runner
- 1986 – Tom Huddlestone, English footballer
- 1990 – Ayele Abshero, Ethiopian runner
- 1990 – Bastiaan Lijesen, Dutch swimmer
- 1994 – Adam Peaty, English swimmer