| 1962 | The Rolling Stones perform for the first time at London's Marquee Club. |
| 1963 | Pauline Reade, 16, disappears in Gorton, England, the first victim in the Moors murders. |
| 1967 | Riots begin in Newark, New Jersey. |
| 1971 | The Australian Aboriginal Flag is flown for the first time. |
| 1973 | A fire destroys the entire sixth floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States. |
| 1975 | São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal. |
| 1979 | The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from the United Kingdom. |
| 1995 | Chinese seismologists successfully predict the 1995 Myanmar-China earthquake, reducing the number of casualties to 11. |
| 1998 | The Ulster Volunteer Force attacked a house in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a petrol bomb, killing the Quinn brothers. |
| 2001 | Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-104, carrying the Quest J
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