1925 - Twenty-nine countries signed the Geneva Protocol, which prohibits the use of toxic gases in warfare.
1994 - O.J. Simpson, the former football star, was arrested after two murders.
1996 - French cyclist Jeannie Longo shattered the women's world record for cycling.
2001 - A political movement, established two months earlier by former King Simeon II, won the parliamentary elections in Bulgaria, making him the first former king in Eastern Europe and the only one to enter active politics in his homeland.
2002 - Egypt's chief antiquities official announced that archaeologists had discovered the oldest intact coffin in the world, approximately 4,500 years old, near the Pyramids of Giza.
2002 - Fritz Walter, captain of West Germany's team that won the 1954 FIFA World Cup, passed away at the age of 81.
2007 - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sworn in a emergency government after dismissing the Hamas-led government following the Islamic group's takeover of Gaza.
2008 - California witnessed its first legal same-sex marriage.
2013 - U.S. President Barack Obama met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G8 summit.
2015 - Nine people were killed in a historic American church in South Carolina.
