Musical Finale
1993 Marvin Hamlisch and David Zippel's musical adaptation of Neil Simon's "The Goodbye Girl" closes at Marquis Theater, NYC, after 188 performances
Sports History
1993 Nolan Ryan, 324th & final victory, Rangers 4, Indians 1
- 1993 NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapses for 2nd time
- 1993 Televangelist Robert Tilton announces he is divorcing Marte
Event of Interest
1994 South African President Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning
Sports History
1997 L.A. Dodgers retire Tommy Lasorda's #2
Omagh Bombing
1998 Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles, kills 29 people and injures about 220
- 1999 Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria; some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
PGA Championship
1999 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Medinah CC: Tiger Woods wins his 2nd major by 1 stroke from Spaniard Sergio Garcia
- 2004 Bay of Plenty defeat Auckland 33-26 in Rugby Union to win NZ's Ranfurly shield for the first time in the shield's 102 year history and after 28 unsuccessful challenges
- 2004 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Whistling Straits GC: Vijay Singh of Fiji wins his 2nd PGA C'ship in a playoff with Chris DiMarco & Justin Leonard
- 2004 South African 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend & Ryk Neethling smash the world record with 3:13.17 at the Athens Olympics
- 2005 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Baltusrol GC: American Phil Mickelson wins by 1 stroke from Australian Steve Elkington and Thomas Bjørn of Denmark
Historic Publication
2006 Der Spiegel, Spiegel Online, publishes documents confirming German writer Günter Grass' membership of the Waffen-SS in World War II
- 2007 An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.
- 2008 American breaststroker Rebecca Soni avenges her defeat to Leisel Jones of Australia in the 100m when she swims world record 2:20.22 to beat Jones in 200m at the Beijing Olympics
World Record
2008 An American 1-2 in the 200m backstroke at the Beijing Olympics with Ryan Lochte swimming a world record 1:53.94 to beat teammate Aaron Peirsol
- 2008 Despite China winning the women's gymnastics team all-round gold medal at the Beijing Olympics, Americans Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson go 1-2 in the individual all-round
- 2008 German swimmer Britta Steffen beats Australian Libby Trickett by 0.04 to win the blue ribband 100m freestyle gold medal at the Beijing Olympics
- 2008 Lee Berger and his nine-year-old son, Matthew, discover the two-million-year-old fossils of a new species of human ancestor (Australopithecus sediba) at Malapa Cave, South Africa
- 2009 12th Athletics World Championships open at Berlin, Germany
- 2009 Portugal leaves recession after three consecutive quarters of negative growth having its GDP recover by 0.3% in the second quarter of 2009
- 2010 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Whistling Straits GC: Martin Kaymer of Germany wins his first major title by 1 stroke in 3-hole aggregate playoff with Bubba Watson
- 2012 Seattle Mariners' Felix Hernandez becomes 23rd pitcher to throw a perfect game (1-0 vs Tampa Bay)
- 2013 20 people are killed and 200 are injured in an explosion in Beirut
- 2015 North Korea creates its own time zone -moving its clocks back half an hour to GMT+8.5
- 2016 Anita Włodarczyk of Poland sets a world record 82.29m to win the women's hammer throw gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Zhang Wenxiu (China) silver, and Sophie Hitchon (Great Britain) bronze.
- 2016 Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas dives at the line to win the women's 400m gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; beats American 6-time Olympic gold medallist Allyson Felix by 0.07
- 2016 Thiago Braz da Silva of Brazil sets an Olympic record 6.03m to win the men's pole vault gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games
Event of Interest
2017 Barack Obama's tweet "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion..." in response to Charlottesville violence becomes most-liked tweet ever
Film & TV History
2017 Daniel Craig confirms he will play James Bond one more time
- 2017 Falling tree kills 13, injures 49 at a religious festival in Funchal, on Portuguese island of Madeira
- 2017 Scientists genetic study of the apple reveal its origin was in Kazakhstan, published in "Nature Communications"
- 2018 Australian Senator Fraser Anning evokes Nazi euphemism "a final solution to the immigration problem", in proposing outlawing Muslim immigration into Australia in parliament speech
- 2018 Bar-hopping for pintxos (Basque tapas) in San Sebastián, Spain, named world's best food experience in Lonely Planet's Ultimate Eatlist
- 2018 Boat overturns in floods near the Nile in Northern Sudan, leaving 25 dead, most of them school children
- 2018 First ever US execution by fentanyl of Carey Dean Moore at Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln
Event of Interest
2018 Italian PM Giuseppe Conte declares a 12-month state of emergency in Liguria after the collapse of the Morandi Bridge
- 2018 Record 72,000 Americans (up 10%) killed by drug overdoses in 2017 in new figures by Centers for Disease Control
- 2018 Suicide bomber attacks tuition centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing 48 and injuring 67
Event of Interest
2018 US President Donald Trump revokes security clearance of former CIA Director and Trump critic John Brennan
- 2019 60th annual finger wrestling (Fingerhakeln) championships takes place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, part of Partenkirchner Festival week
- 2019 American Michael Gargiulo, found guilty of stabbing three women, killing two in Los Angeles, while awaiting trial for third killing
- 2019 Israel bars US Democratic congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from entering for supporting Palestinian-led boycott movement
- 2019 Whistleblower releases damaging report on General Electric titled "General Electric, a Bigger Fraud Than Enron" claiming $38 billion accountancy fraud
Event of Interest
2021 Afghan President Ashraf Ghani flees the country as Taliban forces enter the capital Kabul and take control
Election of Interest
2021 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls a snap election for 20 September, two years ahead of schedule
- 2021 Petrol tanker explosion kills 27 and injures 79 in al-Tleil, Lebanon, amid the country's continuing economic crisis
- 2022 Deputy President William Ruto declared winner of Kenyan Presidential election won with just 50.5% of the vote, defeating former Prime Minister Raila Odinga [1]
- 2022 Scotland becomes the first country in the world to make period products free for all [1]
- 2022 Solange Knowles becomes the first black woman to compose for the New York City Ballet [1]
- 2023 Young activists win landmark case, Held v. Montana, judge ruling state of Montana must consider climate change when deciding to approve or renew fossil fuel projects [1]
