2016: At least 57 people are killed and a further 177 injured when two schoolgirl suicide bombers attack a market area in Madagali, Northeastern Nigeria in the Madagali suicide bombings.
2016: President Park Geun-hye of South Korea is impeached by the country's National Assembly in response to a major political scandal. Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn becomes Acting President, later denying to run for a full term.
2015: The start of the thirty-sixth GCC summit in Riyadh business.
2013: At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a train accident near Bintaro, Indonesia.
2012: A plane crash in Mexico kills seven people.
2008: The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for crimes including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.
2003: A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
1996: Gwen Jacob is acquitted of committing an indecent act, giving women the right to be topfree in Ontario, Canada.
1992: American troops land in Somalia for Operation Restore Hope.
1979: The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
1973: British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland.
1971: Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Air Force executes an airdrop of Indian Army units, bypassing Pakistani defences.
1969: U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.
1968: Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).