- 2008 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Broadmoor GC: Eduardo Romero of Argentina wins by 4 strokes ahead of Fred Funk for his second Champions Tour major title
- 2008 British Open Women's Golf, Sunningdale GC: Jiyai Shin of South Korea shoots final round 66 (−6) to win her first major championship, 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Yani Tseng
- 2012 United Nations General Assembly reproaches The United Nations Security Council over its lack of action in Syria
Olympic Gold
2012 American super-swimmer Michael Phelps wins the 100m butterfly in London to take his all-time Olympic gold medal tally to a record 17

Michael Phelps
- 2012 American Missy Franklin swims a world record 2:04.06 to win the 200m backstroke gold medal at the London Olympics
- 2013 9 children are killed by a suicide bombing in Jalalabad, Afghanistan
- 2013 80 people are killed in a wave of insurgency across Iraq
- 2013 Super Rugby Final, Waikato Stadium, Hamilton: Chiefs successfully defend title with a 27-22 over ACT Brumbies
- 2014 The Israeli Defence Force remove much of its ground forces from the Gaza Strip following the destruction of 32 tunnels built by Hamas and other militants
- 2014 At least 13 Palestinians reported killed in ongoing air raids and tank shelling by Israel

Barack Obama
- 2015 The Athens Stock Exchange re-opens after a month and falls by 22%
Event of Interest
2015 Chilean-born author Isabel Allende receives the US Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama

Isabel Allende

Barack Obama
Election of Interest
2017 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is elected for his second term as President

Hassan Rouhani
Music Single
2017 Camila Cabello releases her single "Havana" (biggest song worldwide 2018, 19 million copies sold)

Camila Cabello
- 2019 Suspected domestic terrorist shoots and kills 22 and injures 24 at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas
- 2020 Spain's former King Juan Carlos announces he will go into exile abroad amid his implication in a corruption inquiry
- 2020 Number of Iranian COVID-19 deaths triple that of government tally, showing 42,000 have died instead of 14,405, according to BBC Persian Service investigation [1]
- 2020 Hurricane Isaias makes landfall in the US as a Category 1 hurricane near Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina