1945 | Declaration of Potsdam was signed by the US, Britain and China demanding the unconditional surrender of Japan during World War 2.

1953 | Cuban leader Fidel Castro led a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks. He intended to spark a revolution in Cuba with this attack.

1956 | The plan to nationalise Suez Canal was announced by the Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser initiating the "Suez Crisis".

1993 | The first of the four photos of Mars were taken by the Mars Observer, a month before the spacecraft failed in flight.

2005 | Mumbai received 99.5 cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, which flooded the city and brought it to a halt for over 2 days.

2018 | Facebook registered the single worst day of any public company in the stock market after losing 19 percent or USD 119 billion market value.

2018 | Observation of a Black Hole by The Very Large Telescope in Chile proved Albert Einstein's prediction of "gravitational redshift", which was published in "Journal Astronomy & Astrophysics".

2020 | Juventus won its 9th straight Series A title with goals from Cristiano Ronaldo and Federico Bernardeschiin.