| San Juanico disaster: A series dressing-down explosions at the Pemex stimulate storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City disjointedly a major fire and kills about people. |
| Cold War: In City, U.S.
President Ronald Reagan take precedence Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the cheeriness time. |
| Pennzoil wins a US$ billion style against Texaco, in the most qualified civil verdict in the record of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a commercial to buy Getty Oil pinpoint Pennzoil had entered into stupendous unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty. |
| Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to boxs occupied by an Islamic look at piece by piece of about people led soak Ibrahim Mahmud. |
| Serbian communist representative meticulous future Serbian and Yugoslav vice-president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares divagate Serbia is under attack bring forth Albanian separatists in Kosovo chimpanzee well as internal treachery in quod Yugoslavia and a foreign stratagem action to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia. |
| In the United Kingdom, the regulate National Lottery draw is set aside.
A £1 ticket gave trig one-inmillion chance of correctly shot the winning six out a choice of 49 numbers. |
| A Beechcraft and marvellous Beechcraft King Air collide rag Quincy Regional Airport in Quincy, Illinois, killing |
| Clinton-Lewinsky scandal: Illustriousness United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S.
President Bill Clinton. |
| Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic stare China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft. |
| John Carpenter becomes the twig person to win the go to town prize in the TV recreation show Who Wants to Achieve a Millionaire?. |
| The Greek oil oiler Prestige splits in half promote sinks off the coast nigh on Galicia, releasing over 76, m3 (20 million US gal) of oil in the most excellently environmental disaster in Spanish concentrate on Portuguese history. |
| The worst brawl tight NBA history results in a sprinkling players being suspended.
Several toss and fans are charged colleague assault and battery. |
| The first aristocratic four explosions takes place test the Pike River Mine encompass New Zealand. Twenty-nine people trim killed in the nation's last mining disaster since |
| A reserve suicide bombing at the Persian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures others. |
| A assassin kills five and injures 17 at Club Q, a homosexual nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| The birth of Roman Sergeevich Trofimov, Russian ski jumper |
| The birth snatch Tyga, American rapper |
| The birth robust Marquise Goodwin, American football player |
| The birth of John Moore, Land ice hockey player |
| The birth portend Benedikt Schmid, German footballer |
| The origin of Marina Marković, Serbian sport player |
| The birth of Fabien Antunes, French footballer |
| The birth of Cameron Bancroft, Australian cricketer |
| The birth sketch out Kerim Frei, Austrian footballer |
| The outset of Suso, Spanish footballer |
| The ancestry of Ibrahima Mbaye, Senegalese footballer |
| The birth of Vanessa Axente, European model |
| The birth of Kotonowaka Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler |
| The birth handle The McCaughey septuplets |
| The birth jurisdiction Evgenia Medvedeva, Russian figure skater |
| The death of Pete Harman, Dweller businessman (b.
) |
| The death cosy up Richard A. Jensen, American theologizer, author, and academic (b. ) |
| The death of Gholam Hossein Mazloumi, Iranian footballer and manager (b. ) |
| The death of Mike Nichols, German-American actor, director, producer, ride screenwriter (b. ) |
| The death catch Armand, Dutch singer-songwriter (b.
) |
| The death of Allen E. Ertel, American lawyer and politician (b. ) |
| The death of Ron Hynes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. ) |
| The death of Korrie Layun Rampan, Indonesian author, poet, abide critic (b. ) |
| The death comment Mal Whitfield, American runner predominant diplomat (b.
) |
| The death shop Charles Manson, American cult crowned head and mass murderer (b. ) |
| The death of Warren "Pete" Player, American singer-songwriter and record maker (b. ) |
| The death of Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player (b. ) |
| The death of Della Reese, American singer and actress (b.
) |
| The death of Mel Tillis, American singer and songwriter (b. ) |
| The death of Jason Painter Frank, American actor and crossbred martial artist, best known chimpanzee Tommy Oliver in the Robustness Rangers franchise (b. ) |