1970 – October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de la Liberation de Quebec, after 60 days in captivity.
1992 – The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, with 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground off Galicia, causing an oil spill, affecting around 300 kilometres of coastline.
1992 - UN Security Resolution 794 is passed, approving UN peacekeepers' intervention in Somalia.
1999 – NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander before it enters the Martian atmosphere.
1999 - Six firefighters are killed in the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse fire in Massachusetts.