- 238 – Because of his father's advanced age, Gordian II was proclaimed joint Roman emperor with Gordian I.
- 1765 – The Parliament of Great Britain passed the Stamp Act, requiring that many printed materials in the Thirteen Colonies in British America carry a tax stamp.
- 1943 – World War II: Almost the entire population of the village of Khatyn in Belarus was massacred by Nazi forces, with participation from their Ukrainian and Belarusian collaborators.
- 1995 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov (pictured) of the Soyuz programme returned from the Mir space station after 437 days in space, setting a record for the longest spaceflight.
- 2004 – Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, a Palestinian imam who was a founder and the spiritual leader of Hamas, was killed by a missile from an Israeli helicopter gunship as he left early morning prayers.
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