1900 - The Boxer Rebellion began in China against foreign influence in trade, politics, religion, and technology.
1971 - Geraldine Brodrick gave birth to nine children in Australia.
1986 - Benny Goodman passed away. He was one of the first band leaders in the United States to break color barriers by hiring black musicians.
1998 - Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie set a new world record in the men's 5000 meters.
2002 - Hamid Karzai won the Afghan presidential election in a landslide vote among delegates at the grand assembly, the Loya Jirga.
2004 - Former U.S. President George Bush performed a parachute jump.
2005 - American pop star Michael Jackson was acquitted of all charges in a child sexual abuse trial that threatened to destroy his career.
2006 - Former Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey passed away at the age of 80. He dominated Irish politics from the 1970s to the early 1990s.
2011 - Martin Cooper, inventor of the world's first mobile phone, received a special achievement award at the Webby Awards.
2012 - Dozens were killed in a series of bomb attacks in Northern Iraq.
