2005 – समाचार एजेंसी रायटर ने इराक में अमेरिकी सेना द्वारा पत्रकारों का दमन करने का आरोप लगाया।
2009 – प्रख्यात पार्श्व गायक मन्ना डे को वर्ष 2007 प्रतिष्ठित दादा साहब फाल्के पुरस्कार के लिए चुना गया।
2010 – इलाहाबाद उच्च न्यायालय की लखनऊ पीठ ने विवादित बाबरी मस्जिद मामले में जमीन को तीन हिस्सों में बांटकर रामलला, निर्मोही अखाड़े और वक्फ बोर्ड को एक-एक हिस्सा देने का फैसला सुनाया।
United States History
1864
Confederate troops fail to retake Fort Harrison from the Union forces during the siege of Petersburg.
1911
Italy declares war on Turkey over control of Tripoli.
1918
Bulgaria pulls out of World War I.
1927
Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run of the season off Tom Zachary in Yankee Stadium, New York City.
1935
George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess opens at the Colonial Theatre in Boston.
1938
Under German threats of war, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign an accord permitting Germany to take control of Sudetenland–a region of Czechoslovakia inhabited by a German-speaking minority.
1939
The French Army is called back into France from its invasion of Germany. The attack, code named Operation Saar, only penetrated five miles.
1943
The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps becomes the Women’s Army Corps, a regular contingent of the U.S. Army with the same status as other army service corps.
1949
The Berlin Airlift is officially halted after 277,264 flights.
1950
U.N. forces cross the 38th parallel separating North and South Korea as they pursue the retreating North Korean Army.
1954
NATO nations agree to arm and admit West Germany.
1954
The first atomic-powered submarine, the Nautilus, is commissioned in Groton, Connecticut.
1955
Actor and teen idol James Dean is killed in a car crash while driving his Porsche on his way to enter it into a race in Salinas, California.
1960
Fifteen African nations are admitted to the United Nations.
1962
U.S. Marshals escort James H. Meredith into the University of Mississippi; two die in the mob violence that follows.
1965
The 30 September Movement unsuccessfully attempts coup against Indonesian government; an anti-communist purge in the aftermath results in over 500,000 deaths.
1965
President Lyndon Johnson signs legislation that establishes the National Foundation for the Arts and the Humanities.
1966
Bechuanaland ceases to be a British protectorate and becomes the independent Republic of Botswana.
1972
Pro baseball great Roberto Clemente hits his 3,000th—and final—hit of his career.
1975
The AH-64 Apache attack helicopter makes its first flight.
1994
Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground transit system closes after 88 years.
1999
Japan’s second-worst nuclear accident occurs at a uranium processing facility in Tokaimura, killing two technicians.
2009
Earthquakes in Sumatra kill more than 1,115 people.
