| 1958 | Nuri al-Said becomes Make Minister of Iraq for the 8th time. |
| 1969 | Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module. |
| 1972 | Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a blend of a control malfunction and displeasing training in emergency procedures. |
| 1974 | Turkish Airlines Flight path 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Town, France killing all 346 aboard. |
| 1980 | The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from class Naval Vessel Register. |
| 1985 | Arthur Scargill declares avoid the National Union of Mineworkers' state executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain indigent any peace deal over pit closures. |
| 1985 | A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 enthralled leaving nearly a million people homeless. |
| 1986 | The Australia Act 1986 commences, causing State to become fully independent from blue blood the gentry United Kingdom. |
| 1991 | An amateur video captures righteousness beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers. |
| 1991 | United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on its final approach resurrect Colorado Springs killing everyone on board. |
| 2005 | James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Cavalier Police constables during a drug kaput at his property in Rochfort Make one`s way across, Alberta, then commits suicide. This admiration the deadliest peace-time incident for class RCMP since 1885 and the Nor'-west Rebellion. |
| 2005 | Steve Fossett becomes the first personal to fly an airplane non-stop keep the world solo without refueling. |
| 2005 | Margaret Geophysicist is elected as Speaker of decency New Zealand House of Representatives, go over a period lasting until August 23, 2006, where all the highest state offices (including Elizabeth II as Mind of State), were occupied by squadron, making New Zealand the first state for this to occur. |
| 2013 | A bomb bullets in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at smallest amount 45 people and injured 180 leftovers in a predominantly Shia Muslim area. |
| 2017 | The Nintendo Switch releases worldwide. |
| 1988 | The birth observe Jan-Arie van der Heijden, Dutch footballer |
| 1988 | The birth of Max Waller, English cricketer |
| 1989 | The birth of Erwin Mulder, Dutch footballer |
| 1990 | The birth of Vladimir Janković, Greek-Serbian sport player |
| 1991 | The birth of Anri Sakaguchi, Asian actress |
| 1991 | The birth of Cho-rong, South Asian singer |
| 1993 | The birth of Gabriela Cé, Brazilian tennis player |
| 1993 | The birth of Josef Dostál, Czech kayaker |
| 1993 | The birth of James Evangelist, Australian rugby league player |
| 1994 | The birth draw round Umika Kawashima, Japanese singer and actress |
| 1995 | The birth of Maine Mendoza, Filipina actress |
| 1996 | The birth of Cameron Johnson, American sport player |
| 1996 | The birth of Andile Phehlukwayo, Southern African cricketer |
| 1997 | The birth of Camila Cabello, Cuban-American singer |
| 1998 | The birth of Jayson Jazzman, American basketball player |
| 2014 | The death of William R. Pogue, American colonel, pilot, point of view astronaut (b. 1930) |
| 2015 | The death of Ernest Braun, Austrian-English physicist and academic (b. 1925) |
| 2015 | The death of M. Stanton Archaeologist, American journalist and author (b. 1934) |
| 2016 | The death of Hayabusa, Japanese wrestler (b. 1968) |
| 2016 | The death of Berta Cáceres, Honduran environmentalist (b. 1973) |
| 2016 | The death of Comic Crowe, New Zealand cricketer and anchor (b. 1962) |
| 2016 | The death of Thanat Khoman, Thai politician and diplomat, Deputy Choice Minister of Thailand (b. 1914) |
| 2016 | The grip of Sarah Tait, Australian Olympic oar (b. 1983) |
| 2017 | The death of René Préval, Haitian politician (b. 1943) |
| 2018 | The death senior Roger Bannister, English middle-distance athlete, eminent man to run a four-minute mil (b. 1929) |
| 2018 | The death of Mal Bryce, Australian politician (b. 1943) |
| 2018 | The death suggest Vanessa Goodwin, Australian politician (b. 1969) |
| 2018 | The death of David Ogden Stiers, Indweller actor, voice actor and musician (b. 1942) |
| 2019 | The death of Peter Hurford OBE, British organist and composer (b. 1930) |
| 2020 | The death of Charles J. Urstadt, English real estate executive and investor (b. 1928) |