| Year | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died. | Death day |
| 1991 | Egyptian politician Ali Sabri died. | Death day |
| 1984 | American swimmer Ryan Lochte was born. | Birthday |
| 1980 | The closing ceremony of Games of the XXII Olympiad, or 1980 Summer olympics was held in Moscow. | |
| 1979 | Swedish economist Bertil Ohlin died. | Death day |
| 1979 | Chess grandmaster from Algeria, Aimen Rizouk was born. | Birthday |
| 1979 | Chess grandmaster from Russia, Andrey Rychagov was born. | Birthday |
| 1975 | Alia Royal Jordanian (JY-AEE) aircraft incident at Tamri, Morocco, killed 188 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1969 | Aeroflot Flight H-826 aircraft incident at Preobrazhenka, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR, killed 55 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1966 | 30 people died in William Booth Memorial Home fire at Melbourne, Australia. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1964 | Thai politician Abhisit Vejjajiva was born. | Birthday |
| 1964 | Astronaut from United States, Joan Higginbotham was born. | Birthday |
| 1961 | Chess grandmaster from Spain, Felix Izeta Txabarri was born. | Birthday |
| 1960 | Independence Day of Niger. | National Holiday |
| 1959 | Japanese chemist Koichi Tanaka was born. | Birthday |
| 1952 | The closing ceremony of Games of the XV Olympiad, or 1952 Summer olympics was held in Helsinki. | |
| 1951 | Astronaut from Germany, Hans Schlegel was born. | Birthday |
| 1950 | Colombian politician Ernesto Samper Pizano was born. | Birthday |
| 1948 | French politician Jean-Pierre Raffarin was born. | Birthday |
| 1942 | German chemist Richard Willstätter died. | Death day |
| 1937 | Spanish tennis player Andres Gimeno was born. | Birthday |
| 1936 | Around 1200 people died because of Kursha-2 Fire in Soviet Union. This is one of the deadliest wildfires. | Natural Disaster |
| 1935 | Astronaut from Soviet Union, Georgy Shonin was born. | Birthday |
| 1929 | German-born American inventor Emile Berliner died. | Death day |
| 1913 | American inventor Josephine Cochrane died. | Death day |
| 1907 | Brazilian politician Ernesto Geisel was born. | Birthday |
| 1903 | Tunisian politician Habib Bourguiba was born. | Birthday |
| 1903 | Turkish politician Fahri Koruturk was born. | Birthday |
| 1867 | British politician Stanley Baldwin was born. | Birthday |
| 1860 | Scottish inventor William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was born. | Birthday |
| 1856 | Australian politician Alfred Deakin was born. | Birthday |
| 1811 | American industrialist Elisha Otis was born. | Birthday |
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