- 1991 – Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson was released after nearly seven years in captivity in Lebanon.
- 1991 – Pan American World Airways ceased operations.
- 1992 – U.S. President George H.W. Bush ordered American troops to lead a mercy mission to Somalia.
- 1993 – The Angolan government and its UNITA guerrilla foes formally adopted terms for a truce. The conflict was killing an estimated 1,000 people per day.
- 1994 – Bosnian Serbs released 53 out of about 400 UN peacekeepers they were holding as insurance against further NATO airstrikes.
- 1997 – The play revival “The Diary of Anne Frank” opened.
- 1997 – The National Basketball Association (NBA) suspended Latrell Sprewell of the Golden State Warriors for one year for choking and threatening to kill his coach, P.J. Carlesimo.
- 2000 – O.J. Simpson was involved in an incident with another motorist in Miami, FL. Simpson was accused of scratching the other motorists face while pulling off the man’s glasses.
- 2001 – O.J. Simpson’s home in Florida was raided by the FBI in an ongoing two year international investigation into drug trafficking, satellite service pilfering and money laundering. Some satellite equipment was taken from Simpson’s home and no drugs were found.
- 2005 – Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the government to allow universal and equal suffrage.
- 2006 – Six black youths assault a white teenager in Jena, Louisiana.
- 2014 – Islamic insurgents kill three state police at a traffic circle before taking an empty school and a “press house” in Grozny. Ten state forces die with 28 injured in gun battles ending with ten insurgents killed.
- 2015 – A firebomb is thrown into a restaurant in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, killing 17 people.
- 2017 – The Thomas Fire starts near Santa Paula in California. It eventually becomes the largest wildfire in modern California history (at that time) after burning 440 square miles (281,893 acres; 114,078 ha) in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties.
Celebrating Birthday Today
- 1981 – Brian Vandborg, Danish cyclist
- 1982 – Nathan Douglas, English triple jumper
- 1982 – Waldo Ponce, Chilean footballer
- 1982 – Ho-Pin Tung, Dutch-Chinese race car driver
- 1982 – Nick Vujicic, Australian evangelist
- 1983 – Jimmy Bartel, Australian footballer
- 1984 – Marco Giambruno, Italian footballer
- 1984 – Anna Petrakova, Russian basketball player
- 1984 – Joe Thomas, American football player
- 1985 – Andrew Brackman, American baseball player
- 1985 – Stephen Dawson, Irish footballer
- 1985 – Carlos Gómez, Dominican baseball player
- 1986 – Kaija Udras, Estonian skier
- 1986 – Martell Webster, American basketball player
- 1987 – Orlando Brown, American actor and rapper
- 1988 – Andriy Pylyavskyi, Ukrainian footballer
- 1988 – Yeng Constantino, Filipina singer and songwriter
- 1990 – Lukman Haruna, Nigerian footballer
- 1990 – Blake Leary, Australian rugby league player
- 1990 – Igor Sjunin, Estonian triple jumper
- 1991 – Reality Winner, American intelligence specialist convicted of espionage[
- 1992 – Peta Hiku, New Zealand rugby league player
- 1992 – Jean-Claude Iranzi, Rwandan footballer
- 1992 – Kim Seok-Jin, South Korean singer, songwriter and actor[
- 1996 – Diogo Jota, Portuguese professional footballer
- 1996 – Sebastián Vegas, Chilean footballer
- 1996 – Sheryl Sheinafia, Indonesian singer-songwriter and actress
- 1996 – Ivan Belikov, Russian footballer