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2022
2022 – The death of Mahsa Amini occurred, which sparked worldwide protests.
2022
2022 – During the Let Yet Kone massacre, the Burmese military kills 13 villagers, including eight children, after attacking a school in Sagaing Region, Myanmar.
2021
2021 – A 6.0 Mw earthquake strikes Lu County, Sichuan, China, killing three and injuring more than 88.
2015
2015 – A 8.3 Mw earthquake strikes the Chilean city of Illapel, killing 15 people, injuring at least 34, leaving at least six missing, and causing extensive damage. One person also dies in Argentina.
2014
2014 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launches its Kobani offensive against Syrian–Kurdish forces.
2013
2013 – A gunman kills twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.
2007
2007 – Security guards working for Blackwater Worldwide shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square, Baghdad.
2007
2007 – One-Two-Go Airlines Flight 269 carrying 130 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand, killing 90 people.
2005
2005 – The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples, Italy.
2004
2004 – Hurricane Ivan makes landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane.
1996
1996 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-79 to dock to the Russian space station Mir.
1994
1994 – The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of Sinn Féin and Irish paramilitary groups in 1988.
1992
1992 – Black Wednesday: The British pound is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the German mark.
1992
1992 – The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega ends in the United States with a 40-year sentence for drug trafficking and money laundering.
1990
1990 – The railroad between the People's Republic of China and Kazakhstan is completed at Dostyk, adding a sizable link to the concept of the Eurasian Land Bridge.
1987
1987 – The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
1982
1982 – Lebanon War: The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon takes place.
1979
1979 – Eight people escape from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon.
1978
1978 – The 7.4 Mw Tabas earthquake affects the city of Tabas, Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 15,000 people are killed.
1976
1976 – Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.
1975
1975 – The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
1975
1975 – Cape Verde, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe join the United Nations.
1975
1975 – Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia.
1970
1970 – King Hussein of Jordan declares war against the Palestine Liberation Organization, the conflict came to be known as Black September.
1966
1966 – The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.
1963
1963 – Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak. However, Singapore is soon expelled from this new country.
1961
1961 – Pakistan establishes its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with Abdus Salam as its head.
1961
1961 – Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
1961
1961 – The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.
1959
1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
1956
1956 – TCN-9 Sydney is the first Australian television station to commence regular broadcasts.
1955
1955 – A Soviet Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.
1955
1955 – The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.
1953
1953 – American Airlines Flight 723 crashes in Colonie, New York, killing 28 people.
1945
1945 – World War II: The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.
1943
1943 – World War II: The German Tenth Army reports that it can no longer contain the Allied bridgehead around Salerno.
1940
1940 – World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.
1920
1920 – The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.
1914
1914 – World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.
1908
1908 – The General Motors Corporation is founded.
1893
1893 – Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
1880
1880 – The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York.
1863
1863 – Robert College, in Istanbul, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
1822
1822 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a "note" read to the Academy of Sciences, reports a direct refraction experiment verifying David Brewster's hypothesis that photoelasticity (as it is now known) is stress-induced birefringence.
1810
1810 – With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.
1779
1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
1776
1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
1732
1732 – In Campo Maior, Portugal, a storm hits the Armory and a violent explosion ensues, killing two-thirds of its inhabitants.
1701
1701 – James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
1620
1620 – Pilgrims set sail for Virginia from Plymouth, England in the Mayflower.
1400
1400 – Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.
681
681 – Pope Honorius I is posthumously excommunicated by the Sixth Ecumenical Council.