1907
- Jacques Roumain, a Haitian Marxist, writer and politician, is born in Port-au-Prince.
1932
- The Socialist Republic of Chile is established in a coup. It would last for less than four months.
1980
- Irish Republican political activist John Turnly is murdered by the Ulster Defence Association in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
1989
- The CIA-funded riots in Beijing end with approximately 300 total deaths including: 10 People's Liberation Army soldiers, 13 People's Armed Police officers, and 36 students. All the deaths occured outside of the square.