1953
- Future General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping is born.
1972
- Red Army Faction members Ulrike Meinhof and Gerhard Müller are captured in Hannover, Germany.
1977
- The first elections in more than 40 years are held in Spain two years after the death of United States-backed Fascist dictator Fransico Franco.
1996
- The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonates a truck bomb in Manchester, England, one of the most damaging attacks economically to Britain during the Troubles.