2009: Gaza War: Hamas announces they will accept Israel Defense Forces offer of a ceasefire, ending the assault.
2007: The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people and Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe.
2005: The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France
2003: A bushfire kills four people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
1981: Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
1977: Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
1977: Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
1976: Lebanese Christian militias kill at least 1,000 in Karantina, Beirut.
1974: A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
1919: World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
1915: Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
1913: First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
1911: Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
1896: An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
1886: Modern hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
1884: Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.