The fire at Namdaemun in 2008
- 1355 – A tavern dispute between Oxford University students and townsfolk turned into a riot that left about 90 people dead.
- 1814 – War of the Sixth Coalition: A French army led by Napoleon effectively destroyed a small Russian corps led by Zakhar Dmitrievich Olsufiev.
- 1930 – The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launched the failed Yên Bái mutiny in the hope of ending French colonial rule in Vietnam.
- 1984 – Kenyan security forces massacred approximately 5,000 ethnic Somalis at the Wagalla Airstrip in Wajir County, Kenya.
- 2008 – The Namdaemun gate in Seoul, the first of South Korea's National Treasures, was severely damaged by arson (damage pictured).
Ary Scheffer (b. 1795) · Harold Macmillan (b. 1894) · Pope Pius XI (d. 1939)
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