- 1996 – The Guatemalan government and leaders of the leftist Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union signed a peace accord in Guatemala City, ending a civil war that had lasted 36 years.
- 1997 – Hong Kong began killing 1.25 million chickens, the entire population, for fear of the spread of ‘bird flu.’
- 1998 – Khmer Rouge leaders apologized for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed 1 million lives.
- 1999 – The Nasdaq composite index closed at 4,041.46. It was the first close above 4,000.
- 2003 – The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.
- 2006 – The UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt.
- 2012 – A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashes in a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway after overshooting a runway at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing five people and leaving three others critically injured.
- 2013 – A suicide bomb attack at the Volgograd-1 railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd kills at least 18 people and wounds 40 others.
Celebrating Birthday Today
- 1981 – Shizuka Arakawa, Japanese figure skater and sportscaster
- 1981 – Shaun Suisham, American football player
- 1981 – Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko, Estonian footballer
- 1982 – Alison Brie, American actress and singer
- 1982 – Brian Hill, Canadian swimmer
- 1982 – Dale Morris, Australian footballer
- 1982 – Norbert Siedler, Austrian race car driver
- 1983 – Jessica Andrews, American singer-songwriter
- 1983 – James Kelly, Australian footballer
- 1984 – Brenton Lawrence, Australian rugby league player
- 1984 – Reimo Tamm, Estonian basketball player
- 1985 – Alexa Ray Joel, American singer-songwriter
- 1986 – Joe Anyon, English footballer
- 1987 – Juliana Huxtable, American artist
- 1987 – Iain De Caestecker, Scottish actor
- 1987 – Yuhi Sekiguchi, Japanese race car driver
- 1988 – Eric Berry, American football player
- 1988 – Christen Press, American footballer
- 1988 – Ágnes Szávay, Hungarian tennis player
- 1989 – Kei Nishikori, Japanese tennis player
- 1993 – Travis Head, Australian cricketer
- 1993 – Gabby May, Canadian artistic gymnast
- 1995 – Ross Lynch, American singer and actor
- 1996 – Sana Minatozaki, Japanese singer, member of Twice
- 1997 – Felix Keisinger, German skeleton racer
- 2000 – Eliot Vassamillet, Belgian singer