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What happened in history on this day: April 28?
On April 28 in ...
- 357 - Emperor Constantius II visits Rome.
- 585 - War between Lydia and Media ended by solar eclipse.
- 1089 - Dirk de Grote bishop of Verdun/Basel/archbishop of Trier, dies.
- 1109 - Hugo van Cluny 6th abbott of Cluny/saint, dies.
- 1192 - King Conrad of Jerusalem is stabbed to death by two members of the Assassins.
- 1202 - King Philip II throws out John without Country, from France.
- 1253 - Utrecht destroyed by fire.
- 1376 - English parliament demands supervision on royal outlay.
- 1442 - Birth of Edward IV king of England (1461-70, 1471-83).
- 1521 - Treaty of Worms: Emperor Charles names his brother Ferdinand Arch duke of Netherlands-Austria.
- 1550 - Powers of Dutch inquisition extends.
- 1592 - Birth of George Villiers first duke of Buckingham/English Admiral.
- 1628 - King Kristian IV of Denmark signs a three year alliance with Sweden. Both powers agree to come to the defence of Stralsund if attacked.
- 1635 - Virginia Governor John Harvey accused of treason and removed from office.
- 1655 - English Admiral Blake beats Tunen pirate fleet.
- 1686 - First volume of Isaac Newton's "Principia" published.
- 1698 - Birth of Karel Jozef ruler of Batthyányi.
- 1753 - Birth of Franz K Achard German physicist.
- 1758 - Birth of James Monroe in Westmoreland County, Virginia; member of Virginia Assembly, US Senator, US Secretary of State, US Secretary of War, 5th US President (1817-25, Democratic Republican).
- 1770 - Birth of Nikita P Panin Russian diplomat/minister of Foreign affairs.
- 1770 - Marie AC de Camargo Spanish/Italian/Belgian dancer, dies at age 60.
- 1774 - Birth of Francis Baily describer of "Baily's Beads" during solar eclipse.
- 1788 - Maryland becomes the 7th state to ratify the constitution.
- 1789 - Chief Mate Fletcher Christian and nine others stage mutiny on the HMS Bounty. Commander Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 others are set adrift from Tahiti in a 23-foot boat.
- 1796 - Cease fire of Cherasco.
- 1804 - 31 English ships sail Suriname river, demanding transition colony.
- 1810 - Birth of Daniel Ullmann; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1892).
- 1812 - Birth of Daniel Henry Rucker; Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1910).
- 1815 - Birth of Andrew Jackson Smith; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1897).
- 1818 - US President James Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
- 1825 - Birth of James Winning McMillan; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers).
- 1829 - Dutch parliament accepts new press laws.
- 1838 - Birth of Tobias M Carel Asser in Holland; advocate of world law (Nobel Peace Prize 1911).
- 1840 - The General Post Office of Great Britain announces intent to issue postage stamps to prepay postage.
- 1842 - Birth of Louis of Orleans; Earl of Brazil (1870-89).
- 1843 - William Wallace, Scottish mathematician (rights of Wallace), dies.
- 1846 - Birth of Johann E Backlund; Swedish astronomer (planets/asteroids).
- 1855 - First veterinary college in US incorporated in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1860 - Isaac da Costa, poet/writer (Réveil, Wachter!), dies at age 62.
- 1864 - Birth of William F A Ellison; Irish clergyman/director (Armagh Observatory).
- 1873 - Birth of Harold Bauer; English/US pianist (Beethoven-Association).
- 1874 - Birth of Sidney Toler in Warrensburg, Missouri, USA; actor (Madame X, Meeting at Midnight).
- 1878 - Birth of Lionel [Herbert Blythe] Barrymore in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; actor (A Free Soul, David Cooperfield, Dr Kildare).
- 1881 - Robert W Ollinger, US warden/last victim of Billy the Kid, dies.
- 1882 - Birth of Alberto Pirelli; Italian industrialist.
- 1888 - Birth of Henry Crerar; Canadian General (WWI/Italy/Netherlands).
- 1889 - Birth of António de Oliveira Salazar; premier/dictator Portugal (1932-68).
- 1889 - Birth of Bryant Washburn in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Exposure, Millionaire Kid, Nabonga).
- 1889 - Birth of Karel Doorman; Dutch Rear Admiral.
- 1892 - Birth of Joseph Dunninger in New York City, New York, USA; mentalist (Amazing Dunninger).
- 1900 - Birth of Jan Hendrik Oort; Dutch astronomer (hypothesized "Oort Cloud").
- 1900 - Birth of Maurice Thorez; coal miner, Secretary-General of French Communist Party.
- 1901 - First soccer game between Belgium (8) and Netherlands (0).
- 1901 - Cleveland Blues' pitcher Bock Baker gives up a record 23 singles as Chicago White Sox beat Cleveland Blues 13-1.
- 1906 - Birth of Bartholomeus J "Bart" Bok; Dutch/US astronomer (Milky Way).
- 1906 - Birth of Kurt Gödel in Austria; mathematician (Incompleteness Theorem).
- 1906 - Birth of Pierre [Louis] Boileau in Paris, France; novelist (Vertigo).
- 1907 - Birth of Marion Coulon; Belgian theoriest (Jeunesse à la dérive).
- 1908 - Birth of Arnoud Breeveld; Suriname bishop.
- 1908 - Birth of Jack Fingleton; cricket player (Australian opener of 1930s).
- 1908 - Birth of Michael T Fitzmaurice in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Reported Missing, 14 Hours).
- 1910 - First night-time airplane flight (by Claude Grahame-White, in England).
- 1911 - Birth of Frans Vroons; actor/tenor/director (Netherlands Opera).
- 1912 - Birth of Odette Hallowes; British classified agent in France (WWII).
- 1914 - 181 die in coal mine collapse at Eccles, West Virginia, USA.
- 1914 - W H Carrier patents air conditioner.
- 1917 - Birth of Joop Waasdorp; Dutch writer (Naked Life).
- 1917 - Birth of Robert Anderson in New York City, New York, USA; writer (Tea and Sympathy, Never Sang for My Father).
- 1917 - Birth of Robert Cornthwaite in Saint Helen, Oregon, USA; actor (The Thing, War of the Worlds).
- 1919 - First jump with Army Air Corp (rip-cord type) parachute (Les Irvin).
- 1920 - Azerbaijan SSR joins the USSR (first time).
- 1920 - Birth of Nan Merriman; American/Dutch singer (Arturo Toscanini NBC Orchestra).
- 1921 - Birth of Rowland Evans in White Marsh, Pennsylvania, USA; news reporter (CNN - Evans and Novak).
- 1922 - Birth of Guillaume Jorissen; Flemish politician (Volksunie).
- 1922 - Birth of Iser J Koepermann; Russian/US world checkers champion (1958-68, 1975-76).
- 1922 - Birth of William S Broomfield; American politician (Representative-Republican-Michigan, 1956-).
- 1922 - WOI in Ames, Iowa, goes on air as country's first licensed educational radio station.
- 1923 - Birth of Adele Mara in Dearborn, Michigan, USA; actress/singer (Cool Million, Wheels).
- 1923 - Wembley Stadium opens-Bolton Wanderers versus West Ham United (FA Cup).
- 1924 - 119 die in Benwood, West Virginia, USA coal mine disaster.
- 1924 - Birth of Kenneth David Kaunda; founder/President (Zambia, 1964-91).
- 1925 - Birth of Richard C Sarafian in New York City, New York, USA; director/actor (Foley Square).
- 1925 - Kurd rebels surrender to Turkish army.
- 1925 - Louis F J Bouwmeester, actor (Shakespeare), dies.
- 1925 - Netherlands and Great Britain return to gold standard.
- 1926 - Birth of Harper Lee; author (To Kill a Mockingbird).
- 1927 - Birth of Garfield Weston; English industrial/billionaire (Twinings Tea).
- 1929 - Birth of Carolyn Jones in Amarillo, Texas, USA; actress (Morticia - Addams Family).
- 1930 - First night organized baseball game (Independence, Kansas).
- 1930 - Birth of James Baker III in Houston, Texas, USA; Secretary of Treasury (1985-88), Secretary of State (1989-92).
- 1931 - Program for woman athletes approved for 1932 Olympics track and field events.
- 1932 - Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced.
- 1933 - Robin Irvine, actor (Easy Virtue), dies at age 31.
- 1934 - US President Franklin Roosevelt signs Home Owners Loan Act.
- 1934 - Soccer team Blue White '34 forms.
- 1934 - Spanish government of Samper forms.
- 1934 - Detroit Tigers' Goose Goslin grounds into four straight double plays.
- 1935 - Moscow underground opens (81 km long).
- 1936 - Foead I, king of Egypt (1922-36), dies.
- 1937 - First animated cartoon electric sign displayed (New York City, New York).
- 1937 - First commercial flight across the Pacific, by Pan Am.
- 1937 - Birth of Saddam Hussein [At-Takriti]; President of Iraq (1979-).
- 1938 - Birth of Madge Sinclair in Kingston, Jamaica; actress (Bell - Roots, Trapper John).
- 1938 - An Anglo-French defensive alliance is formed in London, England.
- 1938 - King Zog of Albania marries Countess Geraldine of Hungary.
- 1939 - Adolf Hitler addresses the Reichstag in the Kroll Opera House in Berlin, Germany. Hitler denounces the ten-year non-aggression pact with Poland (signed in January 1934), and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement of June 1935. Hitler calls the Anglo-Polish Agreement an alliance directed exclusively against Germany. Hitler demands the return of Danzig to Germany.
- 1940 - Rudolf Hess becomes commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz.
- 1941 - Birth of Ann-Margret [Olsson] in Valsjobya, Sweden; actress (Bye Bye Birdie, Carnal Knowledge, Viva Las Vegas, Tommy).
- 1941 - Last British troops in Greece surrender.
- 1942 - "World War II" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll.
- 1942 - Birth of Mike Brearley; cricket player (outstanding England captainain 1977-81).
- 1942 - Nightly "dim-out" begins along the US East Coast.
- 1943 - US President Franklin Roosevelt inspects the Fort Knox Bullion Depository, the first and only time the vault is opened for inspection for anyone other than authorized personnel.
- 1943 - Birth of Fantastic Johnny C[orley]; American singer ("Boogaloo down Broadway").
- 1943 - Birth of John Oliver Creighton in Orange, Texas, USA; Captain US Navy/astronaut (STS 51G, 36, 48).
- 1943 - German-Italian counter offensive in North Africa.
- 1943 - US 34th Division occupies Djebel el Hara North Tunisia.
- 1944 - Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 US soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats.
- 1945 - Benito Mussolini is captured by Italian Partisans. Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed and hung in a Milan piazza.
- 1945 - Birth of Ajit Manohar Pai; cricket player (one Test India versus New Zealand 1969).
- 1945 - British commandos attack Elbe and occupy Lauenburg.
- 1945 - Claretta Petacci, mistress of Mussolini, is executed.
- 1945 - US 5th army reaches Swiss border.
- 1947 - Birth of Steve Khan; jazz musician ("Christmas Waltz").
- 1947 - Thor Heyerdahl and Kon-Tiki sail from Peru to Polynesia.
- 1948 - Birth of Marcia Strassman in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Julle Kotter - Welcome Back Kotter).
- 1949 - Birth of Jerome "Jay" Apt in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA; PhD/astronaut (STS 37, 47, 59, 79).
- 1950 - Birth of Jay Leno in New Rochelle, New York, USA; comedian/talk show host (The Tonight Show).
- 1950 - Birth of Willie Colon in the Bronx, New York, USA; actor (The Last Flight).
- 1951 - US-Japan peace treaty takes effect.
- 1952 - Birth of Mary McDonnell in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Sneakers, Independence Day).
- 1952 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Richmond Golf Open.
- 1952 - Saint Louis Browns lend two black minor league players to Hankyu Braves of Japan.
- 1952 - Japan and the United States sign a formal peace treaty.
- 1955 - Birth of Eddie Jobson; rock violinist (Frank Zappa, United Kingdom, Roxy Music - "For Your Pleasure").
- 1955 - Lode Cantens, Flemish playwrite (Gnomes of the City), dies at age 43.
- 1956 - Birth of Paul S Lockhart in Amarillo, Texas, USA; Major US Air Force/astronaut.
- 1956 - Last French troops leave Vietnam.
- 1956 - Cincinnati Reds' Frank Robinson hits his first of 586 homeruns.
- 1957 - Birth of Leopold Eyharts in France; cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-26, TM-28/27).
- 1957 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open.
- 1957 - Weekly interview show The Mike Wallace Interview first airs.
- 1958 - Birth of Hal Evan Sutton in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA; PGA golfer (1982 Walt Disney, PGA 1983).
- 1958 - Birth of Nancy Lee Grahn in Skokie, Illinois, USA; actress (Julia - Santa Barbara).
- 1958 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. Operation Grapple Y, bomb detonated at 8000 feet, force of 3 megatons, biggest for Britain so far.
- 1958 - Vanguard TV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed).
- 1958 - US Vice President Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America.
- 1960 - Anton Pancake, astronomer/marxist theorist, dies at age 87.
- 1960 - Birth of Wally Langdon; bassist (Bob Color).
- 1961 - Birth of Cathy Gerring in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA; LPGA golfer (1990 Lady Keystone Open).
- 1961 - Warren Spahn pitches second no-hitter at age 41, beats San Francisco Giants, 1-0.
- 1962 - Birth of Evguenni Rochtchin; NHL forward (Team Belarus, Olympics-1998).
- 1963 - 17th Tony Awards: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum win.
- 1963 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship.
- 1964 - Birth of Barry Larkin in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; shortstop (Cincinnati Reds).
- 1964 - Birth of Helen Marina Lucy in Windsor, England; daughter of Prince Edward.
- 1964 - Birth of Mark Hager; Australian field hockey forward/captain (Olympics-4th-1988, 1996).
- 1964 - Japan joins OECO.
- 1965 - Ferdinand Bordewijk, Dutch lawyer/writer (Character), dies at age 80.
- 1965 - Lindsey Nelson broadcasts game at Astrodome from a hanging gondola.
- 1965 - Richard Helms replaces Marshall S Carter as deputy director of US Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1965 - US marines invade Dominican Republic.
- 1965 - William F Raborn Junior replaces John A McCone as 7th head of US Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1966 - 20th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3.
- 1966 - 38th Academy Awards - The Sound of Music, Julie Christie and Lee Marvin win.
- 1966 - Birth of Jim Poole in Rochester, New York, USA; pitcher (Cleveland Indians).
- 1966 - Birth of John Patrick Daly in Sacramento, California, USA; PGA golfer (1995 British Open).
- 1966 - Cleveland Indians tie record with 10th straight win since Opening Day.
- 1966 - OCAM, Common Afro-Mauritian Organization forms.
- 1966 - Ralph Bunker, actor (Ghost Goes West), dies of a stroke at age 77.
- 1967 - Birth of Pete Stoyanovich; NFL kicker (Miami Dolphins, Kansas City Chiefs).
- 1967 - Expo 67 opens in Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
- 1967 - Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army and is stripped of boxing title.
- 1968 - Hair opens at Biltmore Theater in New York City for 1750 performances.
- 1968 - Birth of Andy Flower; cricket player (Zimbabwe keeper and victorious Test captain).
- 1968 - Birth of Damion Lyons; Canadian Football League cornerback (British Columbia Lions).
- 1968 - Birth of Mark Carrier; NFL safety (Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions).
- 1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies' Golf Invitational.
- 1969 - Birth of Merlelynn Lange-Harris in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; basketball center (Olympics-1996).
- 1969 - Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France. Alain Poher is made Provisional President of France.
- 1969 - King Crimson with Greg Lake and Ian McDonald debuts.
- 1970 - Birth of Jason Belser; defensive back (Indianapolis Colts).
- 1970 - Birth of Mark Harris; wide receiver (San Francisco 49ers).
- 1970 - Birth of Nicklas Lidstrom in Vasteras, Sweden; NHL defenseman (Team Sweden, Detroit Red Wings).
- 1970 - Death of Ed Begley at age 69 of a heart attack; actor (Charlie Chan on radio, Alan Young Show, Myrt and Marge, The Fat Man, Richard Diamond Private Detective, Armstrong Circle Theatre, Justice, Kraft TV Theatre, Burke's Law, Gunsmoke, Mr Koppel - Leave it to Larry, Alcoa Hour, Sweet Bird of Youth (Oscar award)).
- 1971 - Birth of Chris[topher Tyler] Young in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Bryce Lynch - Max Headroom, Great Outdoors).
- 1971 - Birth of Meredith McGrath in Midland, Michigan, USA; tennis star (1996 Essen doubles).
- 1971 - Birth of Mihai Apostal in Bucharest, Romania; Canadian kayaker (Olympics-1996).
- 1971 - Birth of Simbi Khali; actress (Nina - Third Rock From the Sun).
- 1972 - Birth of Jan Benda in Reet, Belgium; hockey forward (Team Germany 1998).
- 1972 - Birth of Jean-Paul van Gastel; soccer player (Willem II).
- 1972 - Birth of Michelle Menzies in Barrie, Ontario, Canada; Canadian ice pairs (1995, 1996 Canadian champions).
- 1972 - Congressman John Rarick declares in House of Representatives "The Council on Foreign Relations is the Establishment." The CFR uses pressure from above and below "to justify the high-level decisions for converting the United States from a sovereign constitutional Republic into a servile member-state of a One-World dictatorship.".
- 1972 - The courts award the Kentucky Derby prize money to second place winner because the winner was given drugs before the race.
- 1973 - Birth of Earl Holmes; linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers).
- 1973 - Birth of Marc[us] Blake Schneider in Lubbock, Texas, USA; rower (Olympics-bronze-1996).
- 1973 - Birth of Melvin Hayes; NFL tackle (New York Jets, Tennessee Oilers).
- 1973 - Birth of Serge Zwikker; NBA center (Houston Rockets).
- 1973 - ABC airs the last The Julie Andrews Hour TV show.
- 1973 - Pat Henning, actor (Goodyear TV Playhouse), dies at age 62.
- 1974 - Birth of Sergei Stas; NHL defenseman (Team Belarus, Olympics-1998).
- 1974 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic.
- 1974 - Paul Page, actor (Girl from Havanna, Moth), dies at age 70.
- 1975 - Birth of James Thrash; wide receiver (Washington Redskins).
- 1975 - Birth of Martin Lewis; NBA guard (Toronto Raptors).
- 1975 - Jan A de Jonge, Dutch historian, dies at age 48.
- 1975 - South Vietnam General Duong Van Minh sworn in as president.
- 1977 - Andreas Baader and members of Baader-Meinhoff jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly two years in Stuttgart, Germany.
- 1977 - Christopher Boyce convicted for selling US secrets to the Russians.
- 1977 - Ricardo Cortez, actor/director (Bad Company, Flesh), dies at age 87.
- 1978 - Birth of Nate Richert in Saint Paul, Minnesota; musician, actor (Harvey - Sabrina).
- 1980 - Cyrus Vance, US President Jimmy Carter's Secretary of State, resigns.
- 1980 - Dee Carroll [Betty Jean Marsh], actress (Mad Bomber, Split), dies.
- 1981 - Mickey "Toy Bulldog" Walker, welterweight champion (1922-26) dies at age 79.
- 1982 - EW "Nobby" Clark, English cricket player (32 wickets in 8 Tests 1929-34), dies.
- 1983 - Argentine government declares all 15-30,000 missing persons dead.
- 1983 - NASA launches GOES-F.
- 1983 - Ron James, cricket player (New South Wales's Sheffield Shield captain 1949-50), dies.
- 1984 - Glen H Taylor, US Senator/vice presidential candidate (1948), dies at age 80.
- 1985 - Alice Miller wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic.
- 1985 - Billy Martin named New York Yankees' manager for fourth time.
- 1985 - Fernando Valenzuela sets record of 41 scoreless innings to start season.
- 1985 - The Australian Nuclear Disarmament Party (NDP) splits.
- 1987 - Ben Linder, American development worker, murdered by Contras in Nicaragua (born 1959).
- 1987 - NBA announces expansion to Charlotte, North Carolina and Miami, Florida in 1988 and Minneapolis, Minnesota and Orlando, Florida in 1989.
- 1988 - Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 Flight 243 roof partially tears off in flight; kills stewardess.
- 1988 - Baltimore Orioles lose American League record 21 games in a row.
- 1988 - New Jersey Devils set all time playoff mark for penalty minutes.
- 1989 - Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money.
- 1989 - Iran protests sale of Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie.
- 1989 - Olaff J de Landell [JB van Sparwoude], Dutch writer, dies at age 77.
- 1990 - Chorus Line closes at Shubert Theater in New York City after 6,137 performances (15 years).
- 1990 - Boston Celtics score most points in a playoff, beat New York Knicks 157-128.
- 1990 - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Dave Ferraro.
- 1991 - Floyd B McKissick, US founder (CORE), dies.
- 1991 - Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) is launched.
- 1991 - Death of Johnny Eck, American sideshow performer (born 1911).
- 1992 - Francis Bacon, Irish/British abstract painter, dies at age 82 (born 1909).
- 1992 - Italian President Francesco Cossiga formally resigns.
- 1992 - Milwaukee Brewers beat Toronto Blue Jays 22-2 with American League record 31 hits in 9 innings.
- 1992 - The two remaining countries of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Montenegro - form a new state, named the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, bringing to an end the union of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Bosnian Muslims and Macedonians that existed from 1918 (with the exception of the period during World War II).
- 1993 - Carlo Ciampi forms Italian government with ex-communists.
- 1993 - Jim Valvano, basketball coach (North Carolina State), dies of cancer at age 47.
- 1993 - New York Islanders beat Washington Capitals four to one in playoffs, Capitals Dale Hunter attacks Pierre Turgeon after scoring, in hockey's worst cheap shot.
- 1994 - First multi-racial election in South Africa ends.
- 1994 - Aldrich Ames, former US Central Intelligence Agency officer and wife Rosario plead guilty to spying.
- 1994 - Freddy Thielemans sworn in as mayor of Brussels, Belgium.
- 1994 - FOX airs the 100th episode of The Simpsons TV show.
- 1995 - Gas explosion in South Korean metro, 103 die.
- 1995 - Sri Lankaan BAE748 plane crashes at Palaly, 52 die.
- 1996 - Henry Clarke, fashion photographer, dies at age 75.
- 1996 - Martin Bryant kills 35 people at the Tasmania tourist site in Port Arthur, Australia.
- 1996 - Meg Mallon wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic.
- 1996 - William E Colby, director of US Central Intelligence Agency (1973-76), dies at age 76.
- 1997 - Susan Seddon Boulet, artist, dies of cancer at age 45.
- 1999 - Death of Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1921).
- 1999 - Death of Rory Calhoun AKA Francis McCown at age 76; actor (over 80 movies and 1,000 television episodes, The Texan, The Blue and the Grey mini-series, Capitol).
- 2000 - CBS airs the final episode of the sitcom Cosby.
- 2001 - Soyuz TM-32 lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying the first space tourist, American Dennis Tito.
- 2001 - Sony CEI releases the Gran Turismo 3 A-spec video game for the PlayStation 2 in Japan. One million copies sell in two days.
- 2004 - Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse in Iraq is revealed on the US television show 60 Minutes II.
- 2005 - The Wynn Las Vegas hotel and casino opens, the world's most expensive casino resort, at a cost of US$2.7 billion.
- 2007 - Death of Dabbs Greer, American actor (Little House on the Prairie) (born 1917).
- 2007 - Death of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (born 1912).
- 2008 - A Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter crashes onto an offshore drilling platform in the Black Sea, killing all 20 people on board.
- 2008 - Mars Incorporated and Berkshire Hathaway team up to buy chewing gum manufacturer Wm Wrigley Junior Company for US$23 billion, creating the world's largest confectionery company. Warren Buffet will loan US$4.4 billion for 20 percent stake in Wrigley.
- 2008 - Two passenger trains collide in eastern China, killing at least 70 people and injuring hundreds. The crash, the worst in China since 1997, was caused by human error, with one train travelling much faster than the speed limit.
- 2008 - India sets a world record by sending ten satellites into orbit in a single launch.
- 2009 - Death of Ekaterina Maximova, Soviet-Russian ballerina (born 1939).
- 2011 - Silver closes trading in London at $48.70 an ounce.
- 2014 - United States President Barack Obama's new economic sanctions against Russia go into effect, targeting companies and individuals close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
- 2019 - Victor Vescovo achieves the deepest dive of any human in history, as he reaches Challenger Deep within the Mariana Trench, at a depth of 10,928 m (35,853 ft).
- 2020 - Colombia formalizes its membership with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, becoming the 37th nation of the organization.
- 2020 - A fast radio burst is detected from the Magnetar SGR 1935+2154, the first ever detected inside the Milky Way, and the first to be linked to a known source.
- 2020 - Death of Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Australian scientist (born 1936).
- 2021 - At least 55 people are killed and nearly 50,000 more are displaced in one of the most serious clashes in Central Asia following border disputes between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
- 2021 - The European Union approves the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, governing the relationship between the EU and UK after Brexit.
- 2021 - Death of Federico Salas, 136th Prime Minister of Peru (born 1950).
- 2023 - Death of Tim Bachman at age 71 of cancer; guitarist (Bachman-Turner Overdrive group).
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