Historic Event
1992 Ross Perot re-enters US presidential race
- 1994 Oriental Pearl Tower, the modern symbol of Shanghai, is completed standing 468 m (1,536 feet) high (China's tallest structure until 2007)
Historic Event
1994 South African President Nelson Mandela visits US
- 1994 Stanley Betrian sworn in as leader of Curacao
- 1995 Bermuda begins using new area code 441
Historic Event
1996 Following the Port Arthur Massacre, John Howard's Australian government starts a gun buy back scheme. Compulsorily acquires more than 640,000 firearms, including many newly illegal semi-automatic rifles and shotguns.
Historic Event
1998 Vladimir Putin became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
Appointment of Interest
2011 Martin Dempsey is appointed US Joint Chiefs of Staff by President Obama
- 2012 3 NATO soldiers and 16 Afghan police are killed by a suicide bombing in Khost, Afghanistan
- 2012 36 people are killed in a ferry collision in Hong Kong
- 2012 California becomes the first US state to ban conversion therapy for minors
- 2013 A partial United States federal government shutdown occurs as a result of political disagreements over operational spending
- 2014 41 children are killed by a suicide bombing on the Akrameh al-Makhzumi school in Homs, Syria
- 2015 A gunman kills 8 students and a teacher at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon
- 2015 Cargo ship El Faro goes missing with 33 crew during Hurricane Joaquin near the Bahamas
- 2015 Mudslide on the outskirts of Guatemala City leaves at least 131 dead and 300 missing
- 2018 French photographer Jean-Claude Arnault, at the center of a Nobel prize sexual assault scandal, sentenced to two years in prison for rape
- 2018 More than 80,000 American died of the flu during 2017-2018 winter, highest in ten years, according to US heath officials
- 2018 New trade deal announced between United States, Canada and Mexico (USMCA), replacing NAFTA
- 2018 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology awarded to James Allison and Tasuku Honjo for cancer treatment innovations
- 2018 The United States, Mexico and Canada agree a new trade deal to replace NAFTA
- 2019 China celebrates 70th anniversary of Communism with military parade of 15,000 soldiers in Beijing
- 2019 Former Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger found guilty of murdering her black neighbor in his apartment in landmark case on use of police force and racial bias
- 2019 Indian government bans the export of onions, an important food staple to control prices, causing shortages in Bangladesh and Nepal
- 2019 Law allowing teachers to carry guns in schools comes into effect in US state of Florida
- 2019 Political crisis in Peru as President Martín Vizcarra dissolves Congress over its refusal to support his anti-corruption reforms
Historic Event
2019 US Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders taken to hospital after suffering a heart attack
- 2020 US White House aide Hope Hicks tests positive for COVID-19
- 2021 Global COVID-19 death toll of recorded cases passes 5 million as the Delta variant continues to surge around the world [1]
- 2021 US COVID-19 death toll passes 700,000, with daily deaths averaging 1,900 a day [1]
- 2022 Ukrainian forces enter the strategic town of Lyman in Donetsk province defeating Russian forces and forcing them to retreat to Kremina, barely a day after Vladimir Putin announced Russia's illegal annexation of Donetsk