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Notable Births

Andrew Nembhard

Andrew Nembhard

b. 2000

Canadian basketball player (born 2000)

Seungkwan

Seungkwan

b. 1998

South Korean singer (born 1998)

Jennie (singer)

Jennie (singer)

b. 1996

South Korean singer (born 1996)

Zhou Qi

Zhou Qi

b. 1996

Chinese basketball player (born 1996)

Jonathan Allen

Jonathan Allen

b. 1995

American football player (born 1995)

Mikaela Turik

Mikaela Turik

b. 1995

Canadian womens cricketer (born 1995)

Tre'Davious White

Tre'Davious White

b. 1995

American football player (born 1995)

Mikko Lehtonen (ice hockey, born 1994)

Mikko Lehtonen (ice hockey, born 1994)

b. 1994

Finnish ice hockey player (born 1994)

Hannes Anier

Hannes Anier

b. 1993

Estonian footballer (born 1993)

Amandine Hesse

Amandine Hesse

b. 1993

French tennis player (born 1993)

Sungjin

Sungjin

b. 1993

South Korean singer (born 1993)

Jason Zucker

Jason Zucker

b. 1992

American ice hockey player (born 1992)

Matt Duchene

Matt Duchene

b. 1991

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1991)

Dennis Kelly (American football)

Dennis Kelly (American football)

b. 1990

American football player (born 1990)

Nicklas Bendtner

Nicklas Bendtner

b. 1988

Danish footballer (born 1988)

Jorge Torres Nilo

Jorge Torres Nilo

b. 1988

Mexican footballer (born 1988)

FKA Twigs

FKA Twigs

b. 1988

English singer, songwriter, and dancer (born 1988)

Jake Epstein

Jake Epstein

b. 1987

Canadian actor and singer (born 1987)

Charlotte Henshaw

Charlotte Henshaw

b. 1987

British Paralympic swimmer

Greivis Vásquez

Greivis Vásquez

b. 1987

Venezuelan basketball player and coach (born 1987)

Notable Deaths

David Lynch

David Lynch

d. 2025

American filmmaker (1946–2025)

Joan Plowright

Joan Plowright

d. 2025

British actress (1929–2025)

Bob Uecker

Bob Uecker

d. 2025

American baseball player and broadcaster (1934–2025)

Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta

Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta

d. 2022

President of Mali from 2013 to 2020

Pedro Trebbau

Pedro Trebbau

d. 2021

Venezuelan zoologist (1929–2021)

Phil Spector

Phil Spector

d. 2021

American record producer and convicted murderer (1939–2021)

Christopher Tolkien

Christopher Tolkien

d. 2020

British book editor (1924–2020)

John C. Bogle

John C. Bogle

d. 2019

American investor and business magnate (1929–2019)

Lorna Doom

Lorna Doom

d. 2019

American musician (1958–2019)

Chris Wilson (Australian musician)

Chris Wilson (Australian musician)

d. 2019

Australian musician (1956–2019)

Oliver Ivanović

Oliver Ivanović

d. 2018

Kosovo Serb politician

Gene Cernan

Gene Cernan

d. 2017

American astronaut and lunar explorer (1934–2017)

Joannis Avramidis

Joannis Avramidis

d. 2016

Greek-Austrian artist (1922–2016)

Ted Marchibroda

Ted Marchibroda

d. 2016

American football player and coach (1931–2016)

Miriam Akavia

Miriam Akavia

d. 2015

Polish-born Israeli writer, translator and Holocaust survivor

Yao Beina

Yao Beina

d. 2015

Chinese singer and songwriter (born 1981)

Ruth Duccini

Ruth Duccini

d. 2014

American actress (1918–2014)

Dave Madden

Dave Madden

d. 2014

Canadian-born American actor (1931–2014)

Hiroo Onoda

Hiroo Onoda

d. 2014

Imperial Japanese Army officer (1922–2014)

Wayne D. Anderson

Wayne D. Anderson

d. 2013

American college basketball coach

On This Day in History

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First impeachment of Donald Trump

2020

The first impeachment of Donald Trump formally moves into its trial phase in the United States Senate.

First impeachment of Donald Trump

United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement

2020

The United States Senate ratifies the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement as a replacement for NAFTA.

United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement

Myanmar

2018

Myanmar police open fire on a group of ethnic Rakhine protesters, killing seven and wounding twelve.

Myanmar

Turkish Airlines Flight 6491

2017

Turkish Airlines Flight 6491 crashes into a residential area near Manas International Airport in Kyrgyzstan, killing 39 people.

Turkish Airlines Flight 6491

2016 Ouagadougou attacks

2016

Thirty-three out of 126 freed hostages are injured and 23 killed in terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on a hotel and a nearby restaurant.

2016 Ouagadougou attacks

Mali War

2012

The Mali War begins when Tuareg militias start fighting the Malian government for independence.

Mali War

Syrian civil war

2011

Syrian civil war: The Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) is established with the stated goal of re-organizing Syria along the lines of democratic confederalism.

Syrian civil war

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

2006

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Space Shuttle Columbia

2003

The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.

Space Shuttle Columbia

War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)

2002

War in Afghanistan: The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban.

War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)

Second Congo War

2001

Second Congo War: Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards in Kinshasa.

Second Congo War

Bill Clinton

2001

US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.

Bill Clinton

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1998

In Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa, Guatemala, thirteen American students on a school trip are attacked and robbed at gunpoint; five were raped.

Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa

1995 Súðavík avalanche

1995

An avalanche hits the Icelandic village Súðavík, destroying 25 homes and burying 26 people, 14 of whom died.

1995 Súðavík avalanche

El Salvador

1992

El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.

El Salvador

Iraq

1991

Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War.

Iraq

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1984

A radiation detector at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, United States, detects radioactivity after a truck carrying rebar accidentally passed through the laboratory's area, revealing a contamination incident that occurred in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, the previous month.

Particle detector

Turkish Airlines Flight 158

1983

Turkish Airlines Flight 158 crashes at Ankara Esenboğa Airport in Ankara, Turkey, killing 47 and injuring 20.

Turkish Airlines Flight 158

Iranian Revolution

1979

Iranian Revolution: The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.

Iranian Revolution

Czechs

1969

Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.

Czechs