1930 - Amy Johnson landed her "Gypsy Moth" aircraft in Darwin, northern Australia, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England.
1974 - American pianist, composer, and bandleader Duke Ellington passed away.
1982 - During the Iran-Iraq war, Iranian forces regained control of Khorramshahr after it had been occupied by Iraq for 20 months.
2000 - Reuters correspondent Kurt Schork was killed in Sierra Leone during an attack that also resulted in the deaths of a Spanish journalist and four soldiers from Sierra Leone.
2001 - 23 people were killed and more than 300 others injured when a wedding hall collapsed in Jerusalem, marking the worst civilian disaster in modern Israeli history.
2002 - Pope John Paul II accepted the resignation of Milwaukee Roman Catholic Archbishop Rembert Weakland, who was accused of attempting sexual assault.
2003 - Russian President Vladimir Putin made a historic visit to Britain.
2006 - The agreement for the construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the world's first nuclear fusion reactor, was signed.
2014 - Three people were killed at the Jewish Museum in Brussels.
2014 - Kenya set a world record in the women's 4 × 1500m relay.
