- 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
- 1949 – George Orwell‘s Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
- 2008 – At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in a Ukrainian coal mine causes it to collapse.
- 2008 – At least seven people are killed and ten injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan.
- 2009 – Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour.
- 2014 – At least 28 people are killed in an attack at Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, Pakistan.
- 2023 – Former US President Donald Trump is indicted on federal charges of misusing classified information.[14]
