1907 - The Anglo-Russian Agreement was signed in St. Petersburg to resolve disputes between Britain and Russia regarding Persia, Afghanistan, and Tibet.
1969 - Former world heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano was killed in a plane crash in Iowa.
1989 - British Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips separated after 16 years of marriage.
1990 - East and West Germany signed a treaty to coordinate their legal and political systems following their reunification.
1997 - British Princess Diana and her companion Dodi Al-Fayed were killed in a car accident in Paris.
2002 - Lionel Hampton, one of America's jazz legends, passed away at the age of 94. He was a pioneer in vibraphone music and collaborated with a long list of jazz greats throughout a six-decade career.
2003 - The world's tallest television made its debut during the Shatin Race Course in Hong Kong.
2005 - Approximately 1,000 Iraqi Shiites were killed in a stampede on a bridge over the Tigris River in Baghdad after panicking due to rumors of an impending suicide bomber.
2005 - British-Polish scientist Joseph Rotblat, who worked on the atomic bomb but won the Nobel Peace Prize as a prominent activist against nuclear weapons, died at the age of 96.
2006 - Norwegian police recovered Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" after it was stolen two years earlier by armed robbers from a museum in Oslo.
2016 - The Brazilian Senate impeached President Dilma Rousseff from office.
