| 2053 | The Battle of Ticameron begins |
| 2028 | St Gaius becomes Pope. |
| 2005 | Tung Chee Hwa, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong, steps down from his post after his resignation is approved by the Chinese central government. |
| 2004 | Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea is impeached by its national assembly for the first time in the nation's history. |
| 2003 | Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, assassinated in Belgrade. |
| 2002 | In Texas, Andrea Yates is found guilty of drowning her five children on June 20, 2001. She is later sentenced to life in prison. |
| 1999 | Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO. |
| 1997 | Mikail Markhasev is arrested in Los Angeles, California and charged with shooting Bill Cosby's 27-year-old son, Ennis Cosby. |
| 1996 | Leo VIII is elected pope. |
| 1994 | A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as 'proof' of the Loch Ness monster, is confirmed to be a hoax. |
| 1994 | The Church of England ordains its first female priests. |
| 1993 | Several bombs explode in Bombay, India killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more. |
| 1993 | North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites. |
| 1992 | |
| 1987 | Les Misérables opens on Broadway. |
| 1968 | Mauritius achieves independence. |
| 1967 | Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become President of Indonesia. |
| 1960 | A fire at a chemical plant in Pusan, Korea kills 68. |
| 1958 | In Hilversum, Netherlands, André Claveau wins the third Eurovision Song Contest for France singing "Dors, mon amour" (Sleep, my love). |
| 1956 | The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 500 for the first time (500.24) |
| 1951 | The Dennis the Menace comic strip appears in newspapers across the USA for the first time. |
| 1947 | The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism. |
| 1940 | Winter War: Finland signs a harsh peace treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and remaining population are immediately evacuated. |
| 1938 | Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria; annexation declared the following day. |
| 1933 | Great Depression: Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This was also the first of his "Fireside Chats." |
| 1930 | Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march known as Dandi March to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt. |
| 1928 | In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing 400 people. |
| 1913 | Canberra becomes the capital of Australia. |
| 1912 | The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts in the US) are founded in the US. |
| 1894 | Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time |
| 1803 | Port Gibson, MS is chartered |
| 1664 | New Jersey becomes a colony of Britain. |
