| Year | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Russian Air Force (RA-85572) aircraft incident at Black Sea, off Adler, Russia, killed 92 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 2015 | Chess grandmaster from Israel, Leonid Gofshtein died. | Death day |
| 2009 | Indian film 3 Idiots was released in theaters. This is one of the highest grossing movies in India. | Release Date |
| 2004 | Astronaut from Soviet Union, Gennadi Strekalov died. | Death day |
| 2003 | UTAGE Flight 141 aircraft incident at Cotonou, Benin, killed 141 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 2000 | 309 people died in Dongdu Commercial shopping center fire at Luoyang, China. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1994 | Indian politician Zail Singh died. | Death day |
| 1986 | Iraqi Airways Flight 163 aircraft incident at near Arar, Saudi Arabia, killed 63 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1984 | English cricketer Alastair Cook was born. | Birthday |
| 1984 | Sumo wrestler Sadanofuji was born. | Birthday |
| 1976 | Chess grandmaster from Spain, Alexis Cabrera was born. | Birthday |
| 1976 | Chess grandmaster from Vietnam, Bui Vinh was born. | Birthday |
| 1976 | EgyptAir Flight 864 aircraft incident at Bangkok, Thailand, killed 71 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1975 | English cricketer Marcus Trescothick was born. | Birthday |
| 1975 | Chess grandmaster from Sweden, Johan Hellsten was born. | Birthday |
| 1973 | Turkish politician İsmet İnonu died. | Death day |
| 1973 | Hollywood film The Sting was released in theaters. This is one of the highest grossing movies. | Release Date |
| 1971 | Canadian politician Justin Trudeau was born. | Birthday |
| 1971 | 162 people died in Daeyeonggak Hotel fire at Seoul, South Korea. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1965 | Cable car accident at Le Mont-Dore, France, killed 7 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1962 | Chess grandmaster from Croatia, Nenad Sulava was born. | Birthday |
| 1961 | German-born pharmacologist Otto Loewi died. | Death day |
| 1959 | Astronaut from United States, Michael Anderson was born. | Birthday |
| 1949 | Pakistani politician Nawaz Sharif was born. | Birthday |
| 1949 | American actress Sissy Spacek was born. | Birthday |
| 1942 | Slovak engineer Aurel Stodola died. | Death day |
| 1926 | Emperor of Japan Emperor Taisho died. | Death day |
| 1924 | Indian politician Atal Bihari Vajpayee was born. | Birthday |
| 1919 | American engineer Robert N. Hall was born. | Birthday |
| 1918 | Egyptian politician Anwar Sadat was born. | Birthday |
| 1909 | Russian and Ukrainian engineer Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy was born. | Birthday |
| 1906 | German physicist Ernst Ruska was born. | Birthday |
| 1904 | German-Canadian chemist Gerhard Herzberg was born. | Birthday |
| 1899 | American actor Humphrey Bogart was born. | Birthday |
| 1876 | German chemist Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus was born. | Birthday |
| 1868 | American mechanical engineer Linus Yale Jr. died. | Death day |
| 1851 | American chemist and inventor Herman Frasch was born. | Birthday |
| 1763 | French inventor Claude Chappe was born. | Birthday |
| 1717 | Pope Pius VI was born. | Birthday |
| 1559 | Papacy of Pope Pius IV began. | Papacy began |
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