1958 – Munich Air Disaster: A plane whose passengers include several Manchester United footballers, crashes shortly after take-off in blizzard conditions in Munich, Germany.
1981 - The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on the Ugandan Army installation in the Central Mubenda District, starting the Ugandan Bush War.
1994 — American pop rock band Maroon 5 is formed. (As Kara's Flowers)
1996 - Birgenair Flight 301 crashes off the west coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 people on board. It is the worst accident to involve a Boeing 757.
2016 - A major earthquake strikes Taiwan, mainly in the south of the island. A collapsed tower block kills at least 116 people and leaves up to 100 missing.
2018 - A major earthquake strikes the northeast of Taiwan, including the city of Hualien.
2018 - "Cheddar Man", the earliest-known human known to have lived in present-day Great Britain, 9,000 year ago, is revealed to have had dark skin and blue eyes.
2023 - Major earthquakes strike the southern of Turkey and Syria.
Births
Up to 1800
1347 - Dorothea of Montau, Prussian saint (d. 1394)