2004 – Up to 295 people, including around 200 rescue workers, are killed in Iran, when a freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertiliser catches fire and explodes.
2007 – Terrorist bombings occur on the Samjhauta Express in Panipat, Haryana, India, killing 68 people.
2010 – A coup takes place in Niamey, Niger. PresidentMamadou Tandja is replaced by a ruling junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy.
2014 - At least 76 people are killed and hundreds are injured in clashes between riot police and demonstrators in Kyiv, Ukraine, during the Euromaidan protests.
Births
Up to 1800
1372 - Iban Hajar al-Asqalani, Egyptian jurist and scholar (d. 1448)