2024 A plane crash in Malawi, kills nine people, including Vice President Saulos Chilima.
2008 War in Afghanistan: A U.S. airstrike resulted in the reported deaths of eleven paramilitary members of the Pakistani Frontier Corps and eight Taliban fighters in Pakistan's tribal areas.
2008 Sudan Airways Flight 109 crashed on landing at Khartoum International Airport, killing 30 of the 214 occupants on board.
1991 Eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she remained a captive until 2009.
1987 Mass protests demanding direct presidential elections broke out across South Korea.
1968 The Royal New Zealand Navy adopted a unique white ensign, to distinguish its vessels from those of the Royal Navy.
1957 Led by John Diefenbaker (pictured), the Progressive Conservative Party won a plurality of House of Commons seats in the Canadian federal election.
1935 American physician Bob Smith had his last alcoholic drink, marking the traditional founding date of Alcoholics Anonymous.
1925 The United Church of Canada, the country's largest Protestant denomination, held its inaugural service at the Mutual Street Arena in Toronto.
1918 World War I: Italian torpedo boats sank the Austro-Hungarian dreadnought SMS Szent István off the Dalmatian coast, killing 89 of the crew.
1916 Hussein, King of Hejaz, orchestrated a revolt against the Ottoman Empire with the aim of creating a single unified and independent Arab state.
1913 During a labor strike in Ipswich, Massachusetts, police opened fire into a crowd of strikers, killing one and injuring several others.
1886 Mount Tarawera, a volcano in New Zealand's North Island, erupted (depicted), killing around 120 people and creating the Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley.
1861 American Civil War: The Confederate Army only suffered eight casualties in its victory at the Battle of Big Bethel in York County, Virginia.
1838 At least 28 unarmed Indigenous Australians were massacred at Myall Creek, New South Wales.
1786 Ten days after being formed by an earthquake, a landslide dam on the Dadu River in China was destroyed by an aftershock, causing a flood that killed an estimated 100,000 people.
1782 King Rama I moved into the Grand Palace in Bangkok, which has remained the royal residence of Siam and Thailand since then.
1692 Bridget Bishop became the first person to be executed for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
1624 Thirty Years' War: France and the Dutch Republic concluded the Treaty of Compiègne, a mutual defence alliance.
1329 Byzantine–Ottoman wars: The heavily armed Byzantine army was defeated by Ottoman forces at the Battle of Pelekanon.
1190 Third Crusade: Frederick Barbarossa (pictured), Holy Roman Emperor, drowned in the Saleph River in Anatolia.
731 Tatwine was consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.