| Year | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | American multinational technology company Google was founded. | Foundation day |
| 1991 | Japanese badminton player Minatsu Mitani was born. | Birthday |
| 1986 | Chess grandmaster from England, Stephen J. Gordon was born. | Birthday |
| 1985 | Chess grandmaster from France, Matthieu Cornette was born. | Birthday |
| 1985 | Bakhtar Afghan Airlines (YA-BAM) aircraft incident at Senjaray, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, killed 52 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1982 | 19 people died in Dorothy Mae Apartment arson fire at Los Angeles, California, United States. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1981 | American singer and songwriter Beyonce Knowles was born. | Birthday |
| 1971 | Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 aircraft incident at near Juneau, Alaska, US, killed 111 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1965 | French polymath and humanitarian Albert Schweitzer died. | Death day |
| 1963 | Swissair Flight 306 aircraft incident at Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killed 80 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1962 | Japanese stem cell researcher Shinya Yamanaka was born. | Birthday |
| 1956 | Chess grandmaster from Germany, Thomas Paehtz was born. | Birthday |
| 1953 | Chess grandmaster from England, Michael Stean was born. | Birthday |
| 1949 | Golfer from United States, Tom Watson was born. | Birthday |
| 1942 | Golfer from United States, Raymond Floyd was born. | Birthday |
| 1937 | Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser was born. | Birthday |
| 1934 | British economist Clive Granger was born. | Birthday |
| 1916 | Spanish dramatist Jose Echegaray died. | Death day |
| 1913 | American chemist Stanford Moore was born. | Birthday |
| 1906 | German American biophysicist Max Delbruck was born. | Birthday |
| 1905 | Baltic German inventor Walter Zapp was born. | Birthday |
| 1848 | American inventor Lewis Latimer was born. | Birthday |
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