On This Day in History
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Events
2018
Maryland Flood Event: A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley, causing one death, destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City, and causing cars to overturn.
2017
Andrew Scheer takes over after Rona Ambrose as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
2016
Barack Obama is the first president of the United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.
2014
The football club Kerala Blasters FC and its first supporters' group Manjappada are formed.
2006
The 6.4 Mw Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.
2001
Members of Abu Sayyaf, an Islamist separatist group, seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
1999
Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-96, the first shuttle mission to dock with the International Space Station.
1998
Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
1997
The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell.
1996
First Chechen War: Russian president Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechen rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
1988
Somaliland War of Independence: The Somali National Movement launches a major offensive against Somali government forces in Hargeisa and Burao, then the second- and third-largest cities of Somalia.
1984
The Danube–Black Sea Canal is opened, in a ceremony attended by the Ceaușescus. It had been under construction since the 1950s.
1980
The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
1977
A plane crash at José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba, kills 67.
Births
2003
Franco Colapinto, Argentine racing driver
2002
Jérémy Doku, Belgian footballer
2002
Gabri Veiga, Spanish footballer
2000
Abner Vinícius, Brazilian footballer
1999
Matheus Cunha, Brazilian footballer
1999
Lily-Rose Depp, French-American actress and model
1998
Josep Martínez, Spanish footballer
1997
Anna Bondar, Hungarian tennis player
1997
Daniel Jones, American football player
1997
Konrad Laimer, Austrian footballer
Deaths
2025
Freddie Aguilar, Filipino musician and singer-songwriter (born 1953)
2024
Elizabeth MacRae, American actress (born 1936)
2024
Bill Walton, American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1952)
2021
Poul Schlüter, former Prime Minister of Denmark (born 1929)
2020
Larry Kramer, American playwright, public health advocate and LGBT rights activist (born 1935)
2018
Gardner Dozois, American science fiction author and editor (born 1947)
2017
Gregg Allman, American musician, singer and songwriter (born 1947)
2015
Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver (born 1929)
2015
Nils Christie, Norwegian sociologist, criminologist, and author (born 1928)
2015
Andy King, English footballer and manager (born 1956)
Holidays & Observances
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