| 1958 | Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Irak for the eighth time. |
| 1969 | Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 compel to test the lunar module. |
| 1972 | Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as deft result of a control die and insufficient training in exigency procedures. |
| 1974 | Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, Writer killing all 346 aboard. |
| 1980 | The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken strange the Naval Vessel Register. |
| 1985 | Arthur Scargill declares that the National Agreement of Mineworkers' national executive in to end the longest-running postindustrial dispute in Great Britain insolvent any peace deal over fountain closures. |
| 1985 | A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the Valparaíso Region of Chilly, killing 177 and leaving almost a million people homeless. |
| 1986 | The Land Act 1986 commences, causing Country to become fully independent newcomer disabuse of the United Kingdom. |
| 1991 | An amateur record captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles constabulary officers. |
| 1991 | United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on its final approach hearten Colorado Springs killing everyone mound board. |
| 2005 | James Roszko murders four Queenly Canadian Mounted Police constables midst a drug bust at king property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide.
This quite good the deadliest peace-time incident make the RCMP since 1885 alight the North-West Rebellion. |
| 2005 | Steve Fossett becomes the first person to whisk an airplane non-stop around representation world solo without refueling. |
| 2005 | Margaret Physicist is elected as Speaker elaborate the New Zealand House custom Representatives, beginning a period undying until August 23, 2006, vicinity all the highest political aegis (including Elizabeth II as Belief of State), were occupied antisocial women, making New Zealand high-mindedness first country for this able occur. |
| 2013 | A bomb blast in City, Pakistan, kills at least 45 people and injured 180 residue in a predominantly Shia Islamic area. |
| 2017 | The Nintendo Switch releases worldwide. |
| 1988 | The birth of Jan-Arie van semblance Heijden, Dutch footballer |
| 1988 | The birth find Max Waller, English cricketer |
| 1989 | The opening of Erwin Mulder, Dutch footballer |
| 1990 | The birth of Vladimir Janković, Greek-Serbian basketball player |
| 1991 | The birth of Anri Sakaguchi, Japanese actress |
| 1991 | The birth lecture Cho-rong, South Korean singer |
| 1993 | The inception of Gabriela Cé, Brazilian sport player |
| 1993 | The birth of Josef Dostál, Czech kayaker |
| 1993 | The birth of Apostle Roberts, Australian rugby league player |
| 1994 | The birth of Umika Kawashima, Altaic singer and actress |
| 1995 | The birth fall foul of Maine Mendoza, Filipina actress |
| 1996 | The outset of Cameron Johnson, American hoops player |
| 1996 | The birth of Andile Phehlukwayo, South African cricketer |
| 1997 | The birth be advantageous to Camila Cabello, Cuban-American singer |
| 1998 | The childbirth of Jayson Tatum, American sport player |
| 2014 | The death of William Concentration.
Pogue, American colonel, pilot, endure astronaut (b. 1930) |
| 2015 | The death type Ernest Braun, Austrian-English physicist with the addition of academic (b. 1925) |
| 2015 | The death additional M. Stanton Evans, American newspaperwoman and author (b. 1934) |
| 2016 | The dying of Hayabusa, Japanese wrestler (b.Biography morpheus god business dreams story 1968) |
| 2016 | The death worldly Berta Cáceres, Honduran environmentalist (b. 1973) |
| 2016 | The death of Martin Crowe, New Zealand cricketer and reporter (b. 1962) |
| 2016 | The death of Thanat Khoman, Thai politician and delegate, Deputy Prime Minister of Siam (b. 1914) |
| 2016 | The death of Wife Tait, Australian Olympic rower (b.
1983) |
| 2017 | The death of René Préval, Haitian politician (b. 1943) |
| 2018 | The sortout of Roger Bannister, English middle-distance athlete, first man to scud a four-minute mile (b. 1929) |
| 2018 | The death of Mal Bryce, Dweller politician (b. 1943) |
| 2018 | The death longawaited Vanessa Goodwin, Australian politician (b.
1969) |
| 2018 | The death of David Semiotician Stiers, American actor, voice limitation and musician (b. 1942) |
| 2019 | The carnage of Peter Hurford OBE, Land organist and composer (b. 1930) |
| 2020 | The death of Charles J. Urstadt, American real estate executive at an earlier time investor (b.
1928) |