- 1998 – Mark McGwire set a new major league baseball record for most homeruns hit in a single season. The previous record was 61 set in 1961 by Roger Maris.
- 1999 – Viacom Inc. announced that it had plans to buy CBS Corp.
- 2001 – Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) became the only the fifth player in major league baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season.
- 2003 – Mahmoud Abbas resigns from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister.
- 2007 – Israel executes the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria.
- 2009 – The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.
- 2012 – Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands.
- 2013 – Forty one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt pans, by poachers in Hwange National Park.[
- 2013 – It was announced that Leeuwarden would become cultural capital of Europe of 2018 together with Valletta.
- 2018 – Supreme Court of India decriminalised all consensual sex among adults in private, making homosexuality legal on the Indian lands.
Celebrating Birthday Today
- 1981 – Yuki Abe, Japanese footballer
- 1981 – Yumiko Cheng, Hong Kong singer and actress
- 1981 – Andrew Richardson, Jamaican cricketer
- 1981 – Mark Teahen, American baseball player
- 1983 – Braun Strowman, American wrestler and strongman
- 1984 – Helena Ekholm, Swedish skier
- 1984 – William Porterfield, Northern Irish cricketer
- 1985 – Mitch Moreland, American baseball player
- 1986 – Matt Keating, Australian rugby league player
- 1987 – Ramiele Malubay, Saudi Arabian-American singer
- 1987 – Emir Preldžić, Turkish basketball player
- 1988 – Ray Fujita, French-Japanese actor and singer
- 1988 – Max George, English singer-songwriter and actor
- 1988 – Denis Tonucci, Italian footballer
- 1989 – Nikos Boutzikos, Greek footballer
- 1989 – Kim So-eun, South Korean actress
- 1990 – Matt McAndrew, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1990 – John Wall, American basketball player
- 1992 – Young Tonumaipea, Samoan rugby league player
- 1993 – Mattia Valoti, Italian footballer
- 1995 – Mustafizur Rahman, Bangladeshi cricketer
- 1996 – Andrés Tello, Colombian footballer
- 1997 – Mallory Comerford, American swimmer[
- 1997 – Jai Field, Australian rugby league player
- 1997 – Tsukushi, Japanese wrestler
- 1998 – Michele Perniola, Italian singer
- 1999 – Patrick Brasca, Canadian-Taiwanese singer-songwriter