2024 Battle of Damascus (2024): Syrian opposition forces enter the Rif Dimashq Governorate, reaching within 20 km of the capital Damascus.
2017 Aztec High School shooting: William Atchison kills two students at his former high school.
2016 Pakistan International Airlines Flight 661, a domestic passenger flight from Chitral to Islamabad, operated by an ATR-42-500 crashes near Havelian, killing all 47 on board.
2015 The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt.
2014 The annual furry convention Midwest FurFest is targeted in an unsolved chlorine gas attack.
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723 yrs Azzone Visconti, Italian nobleman (died 1339) (b. 1302)
493 yrs Louis I, German nobleman and politician (died 1605) (b. 1532)