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

2025: Israel initiates air strikes against Iran, initiating the Twelve Day War.

2023: At least 100 people are killed when a wedding boat capsizes on the Niger River in Kwara State, Nigeria.

2023: Three people are killed and another three injured in an early morning stabbing and van ramming attack in Nottingham, England.

2021: A gas explosion in Zhangwan district of Shiyan city, in Hubei province of China kills at least 12 people and wounds over 138 others.

2021: A gas explosion in Zhangwan district of Shiyan city, in Hubei province of China, kills at least 12 people and wounds over 138 others.

2018: Volkswagen is fined one billion euros over the emissions scandal.

2015: A man opens fire at policemen outside the police headquarters in Dallas, Texas, while a bag containing a pipe bomb is also found. He was later shot dead by police.

2012: A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.

2010: A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth by landing in the Australian Outback.

2007: The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time.

2005: The jury acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of his charges for allegedly sexually molesting a child in 1993.

2002: The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

2000: President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.

2000: Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.

1999: BMW win 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans.

1999: BMW win 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans

1997: A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.