- 1915 – The Balkan War treaty was signed.
- 1936 - Louis Meyer won the Indianapolis 500.
- 1960 - Russian novelist and poet Boris Pasternak, famous for "Doctor Zhivago," died in Moscow.
- 1997 – The European Young Men’s Club broke the world record for the tallest tower built from LEGO bricks.
- 1999 - 52 people were killed in a stampede at an underground train station while fleeing a storm in the Belarusian capital, Minsk.
- 2001 - Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas was convicted of receiving illegal funds from the oil giant Elf Aquitaine and sentenced to 6 months in prison.
- 2004 - Saudi commandos freed 41 hostages in a raid on the Al-Waha compound in the city of Khobar in Eastern Saudi Arabia from militants suspected of belonging to Al-Qaeda. Approximately 22 civilians were killed during the operation.
- 2006 - A Ming vase sold at auction in Hong Kong for a world record price of $10,122,558.
- 2006 - A South Korean court sentenced Daewoo Group founder Kim Woo-choong to 10 years in prison and ordered him to pay $22 billion for fraud and embezzlement in the largest financial scandal in the country.
- 2012 - Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in prison by an international court for supporting Sierra Leonean rebels.
