| 2009 | North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests building tensions in the international community.
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| 2002 | China Airlines Flight 611: A Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 people. |
| 2002 | A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique kills 197 people. |
| 2001 | 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. |
| 2000 | Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978. |
| 1999 | The United States House of Representatives releases the ''Cox Report'' which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades. |
| 1997 | A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah. |
| 1985 | Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people. |
| 1982 | HMS ''Coventry'' is sunk during the Falklands War. |
| 1981 | In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. |