- 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.
- 2008 – The United States government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
- 2010 – A Chinese fishing trawler collided with two Japanese Coast Guard patrol boats in disputed waters near the Senkaku Islands.
- 2011 – A plane crash in Russia kills 43 people, including nearly the entire roster of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Kontinental Hockey League team.
- 2012 – Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and orders the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over nuclear plans and purported human rights abuses.
- 2017 – The 8.2 Mw 2017 Chiapas earthquake strikes southern Mexico, killing at least 60 people.
- 2017 – Equifax announce a cyber-crime identity theft event potentially impacting approximately 1451⁄2 million U.S. consumers.
- 2019 – Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and 66 others are released in a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia.[
Celebrating Birthday Today
- 1981 – Gökhan Zan, Turkish footballer
- 1981 – Vangelis, Mexican wrestler
- 1982 – Andre Dirrell, American boxer
- 1982 – George Bailey, Australian cricketer
- 1982 – Emese Szász, Hungarian fencer
- 1983 – Philip Deignan, Irish cyclist
- 1983 – Annette Dytrt, German figure skater
- 1983 – Pops Mensah-Bonsu, English-American basketball player
- 1983 – Piri Weepu, New Zealand rugby player
- 1984 – Ben Hollingsworth, Canadian actor
- 1984 – Farveez Maharoof, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1984 – Miranda, Brazilian footballer
- 1984 – Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player
- 1984 – Pelin Karahan, Turkish actress
- 1985 – Wade Davis, American baseball player
- 1985 – Adam Eckersley, English footballer
- 1985 – Rafinha, Brazilian footballer
- 1986 – Charlie Daniels, English footballer
- 1986 – Colin Delaney, American wrestler
- 1987 – Tommy Elphick, English footballer
- 1987 – Sammy Moore, English footballer
- 1987 – Danny North, English footballer
- 1987 – Evan Rachel Wood, American actress and singer
- 1987 – Aleksandra Wozniak, Canadian tennis player
- 1988 – Alex Harvey, Canadian skier
- 1988 – Kevin Love, American basketball player
- 1990 – Fedor Klimov, Russian figure skater
- 1991 – Dale Finucane, Australian rugby league player
- 1991 – Amar Garibović, Serbian skier (d. 2010)
- 1993 – Taylor Gray, American actor
- 1994 – Elinor Barker, Welsh track cyclist[
- 1994 – Herman Ese’ese, New Zealand rugby league player[
- 1994 – Tom Opacic, Australian rugby league player
- 1996 – Donovan Mitchell, American basketball player[
- 1999 – Laurie Jussaume, Canadian cyclist[