History of Day: Daily Historical Events, Births, Deaths and Holidays

2025: Eleven people are killed, including the perpetrator, and eleven others are injured, in a mass shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria.

2024: A plane crash in Malawi leaves 10 people dead, including the country's Vice President Saulos Chilima.

2018: Opportunity rover, sends it last message back to Earth. The mission was finally declared over on February 13, 2019.

2018: The Opportunity rover sends its last message back to Earth. The mission was finally declared over on February 13, 2019.

2009: Eighty-eight year-old James Wenneker von Brunn opens fire inside the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and fatally shoots Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns. Other security guards returned fire, wounding von Brunn, who was apprehended.

2008: Sudan Airways Flight 109 crashes at Khartoum International Airport, killing 30 people.

2003: The Spirit rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.

2002: The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.

2001: Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.

1999: Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.

1997: Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members.

1996: Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.

1994: China conducts a nuclear test for DF-31 warhead at Area C (Beishan), Lop Nur, its prominence being due to the Cox Report.

1991: Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she would remain a captive until 2009.

1990: British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at Southampton Airport after a blowout in the cockpit causes the captain to be partially sucked from the cockpit. There are no fatalities.

1987: June Democratic Struggle: The June Democratic Struggle starts in South Korea, and people protest against the government.