- 1993 – U.S. President Clinton signed into law the Brady Bill. The bill required a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases and background checks of prospective buyers.
- 1995 – President Clinton became the first U.S. chief executive to visit Northern Ireland.
- 1998 – The Deutsche Bank AG announced that it would acquire Bankers Trust Corp. for $10.1 billion creating the world’s largest financial institution.
- 2001 – For the first time in it’s history, McDonald’s teamed up with a retail partner on its Happy Meal promotions. Toys R Us provided plush figures from it’s Animal Alley.
- 2004 – In Stockholm, Sweden, the Carl Larsson painting “Boenskoerd” (“Bean Harvest”) was sold at auction for $730,000. The work had been in a private collection for more than a century. The Larsson work “Vid Kattegatt” (“By Kattegatt”) sold for $640,000 at the same auction.
- 2005 – John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
- 2012 – An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane belonging to Aéro-Service, crashes into houses near Maya-Maya Airport during a thunderstorm, killing at least 32 people.
- 2018 – A magnitude 7.0 earthquake with its epicenter only 15 miles from Anchorage, Alaska causes significant property damage but no deaths.
Celebrating Birthday Today
- 1981 – Rich Harden, Canadian baseball player
- 1982 – Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress
- 1982 – Tony Giarratano, American baseball player
- 1982 – Jason Pominville, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1983 – Adrian Cristea, Romanian footballer
- 1983 – Vladislav Polyakov, Kazakhstani swimmer
- 1984 – Nigel de Jong, Dutch footballer
- 1984 – Alan Hutton, Scottish footballer
- 1984 – Olga Rypakova, Kazakhstani triple jumper
- 1984 – Francisco Sandaza, Spanish footballer
- 1985 – Kaley Cuoco, American actress
- 1985 – Hikari Mitsushima, Japanese actress and singer
- 1985 – Chrissy Teigen, American model
- 1986 – Jordan Farmar, American basketball player
- 1986 – Evgenia Linetskaya, Israeli tennis player[
- 1987 – Vasilisa Bardina, Russian tennis player
- 1987 – Naomi Knight, American wrestler, model, and dancer
- 1987 – Dougie Poynter, English singer-songwriter and bass player
- 1988 – Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer (d. 2014)[
- 1988 – Vitaliy Polyanskyi, Ukrainian footballer
- 1988 – Tomi Saarelma, Finnish footballer
- 1989 – Vladimír Weiss, Slovak footballer
- 1990 – Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player
- 1990 – Antoine N’Gossan, Ivorian footballer
- 1991 – Agnatius Paasi, Tongan rugby league player
- 1993 – Yuri Chinen, Japanese idol, singer, dancer and model
- 1994 – Sofia Araújo, Portuguese tennis player