- 1991 – European Community leaders agreed to begin using a single currency in 1999.
- 1992 – Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced their separation.
- 1992 – Clair George, former CIA spy chief, was convicted of lying to the U.S. Congress about the Iran-Contra affair. U.S. President George H.W. Bush later pardoned George.
- 1992 – U.S. troops arrived in Mogadishu, Somalia, to oversee delivery of international food aid, in operation ‘Restore Hope’.
- 1993 – The U.S. Air Force destroyed the first of 500 Minuteman II missile silos that were marked for elimination under an arms control treaty.
- 1993 – Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavor completed repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope.
- 1993 – At Princeton University in New Jersey, scientists produced a controlled fusion reaction equivalent to 3 million watts.
- 1994 – Representatives of the Irish Republican Army and the British government opened peace talks in Northern Ireland.
- 1996 – UN Secretary General Boutros-Ghali approved a deal allowing Iraq to resume its exports of oil and easing the UN trade embargo imposed on Iraq in 1990.
- 1999 – The U.S. announced that it was expelling a Russian diplomat that had been caught gathering information with an eavesdropping device at the U.S. State Department.
- 2002 – United Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after losing $4 billion in the previous two years. It was the sixth largest bankruptcy filing.
- 2003 – In Australia, thieves broke into a home and stole two 300-year-old etchings by Rembrandt. The 4-by-4-inch etchings, a self-portait and a depiction of the artist’s mother, were valued around $518,000.
- 2013 – AMR Corporation and US Airways Group completed a merger and was listed on the NASDAQ as American Airlines Group, Inc.
- 2016 – President Park Geun-hye of South Korea is impeached by the country’s National Assembly in response to a major political scandal.
- 2016 – At least 57 people are killed and a further 177 injured when two schoolgirl suicide bombers attack a market area in Madagali, Northeastern Nigeria in the Madagali suicide bombings.
- 2017 – The Marriage Amendment Bill receives royal assent and comes into effect, making Australia the 26th country to legalize same-sex marriage.
- 2019 – A volcano on White Island, New Zealand, kills 22 people after it erupts.
Celebrating Birthday Today
- 1981 – Mardy Fish, American tennis player
- 1982 – Tamilla Abassova, Russian cyclist
- 1982 – Nathalie De Vos, Belgian runner
- 1982 – Ryan Grant, American football player
- 1982 – Bastian Swillims, German sprinter
- 1983 – Jermaine Beckford, English-Jamaican footballer
- 1983 – Neslihan Demir Darnel, Turkish volleyball player
- 1983 – Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer
- 1984 – Michael Adam, German politician
- 1984 – Ángel Guirado, Spanish–Filipino footballer
- 1984 – Leon Hall, American football player
- 1985 – Wil Besseling, Dutch golfer
- 1987 – Kostas Giannoulis, Greek footballer
- 1987 – Mat Latos, American baseball player
- 1987 – Hikaru Nakamura, Japanese-American chess player
- 1988 – Kwadwo Asamoah, Ghanaian footballer
- 1990 – Denise Hannema, Dutch cricketer
- 1991 – Choi Minho, Korean singer and actor
- 1993 – Mark McMorris, Canadian snowboarder
- 1993 – Laura Smulders, Dutch cyclist
- 1995 – McKayla Maroney, American gymnast
- 1996 – Kyle Connor, American ice hockey player
- 1996 – MyKayla Skinner, American gymnast
- 1999 – Riley Clemmons, American Christian musician
- 2000 – Diāna Ņikitina, Latvian figure skater