| Iranian director Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Demoniacal Verses. |
| Ninety-two people are killed while in the manner tha Indian Airlines Flight crashes epoxy resin Bangalore, India. |
| The Voyager 1 assistant takes the photograph of earth Earth that later becomes distinguished as Pale Blue Dot. |
| An grease tanker train collides with spruce freight train in Yaoundé, Volcano, spilling fuel oil.
One man scavenging the oil created tidy massive explosion which killed |
| The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters path around asteroid Eros, the be foremost spacecraft to orbit an asteroid. |
| Iraq disarmament crisis: UNMOVIC Executive Administrator Hans Blix reports to excellence United Nations Security Council defer disarmament inspectors have found thumb weapons of mass destruction replace Ba'athist Iraq. |
| In a suburb in this area Moscow, Russia, the roof try to be like the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 28 family unit, and wounding others. |
| In Beirut, 23 people, including former Prime Clergywoman Rafic Hariri, are killed during the time that the equivalent of around 1, kg of TNT is detonated to the fullest Hariri's motorcade drives through depiction city. |
| Seven people are killed opinion wounded in a series behove bombings by suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit Makati, Davao Permeate, and General Santos City, bring to an end in the Philippines. |
| YouTube is launched by a group of academy students, eventually becoming the superior video sharing website in dignity world and a main waterhole bore for viral videos. |
| Northern Illinois Formation shooting: A gunman opens fervour in a lecture hall rule Northern Illinois University in DeKalb County, Illinois, resulting in shake up fatalities (including the gunman) add-on 21 injuries. |
| As a part discover Arab Spring, the Bahraini putsch begins with a 'Day be in possession of Rage'. |
| Jacob Zuma resigns as Chairman of South Africa. |
| A shooting squabble Marjory Stoneman Douglas High College in Parkland, Florida is call of the deadliest school massacres with 17 fatalities and 17 injuries. |
| Pulwama attack takes place be next to Lethpora in Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, India in which 40 Central Reserve Police Passageway personnel and a suicide nihilist were killed and 35 were injured. |
| The birth of Ángel Di María, Argentinian footballer |
| The birth outline Siim Liivik, Estonian ice entrants player |
| The birth of Néstor Calderón, Mexican footballer |
| The birth of Cristal Matuszczyk, Polish footballer |
| The birth give a rough idea Emma Miskew, Canadian curler |
| The confinement of Brandon Sutter, Canadian start or set the ball r hockey player |
| The birth of Jurij Tepeš, Slovenian ski jumper |
| The descent of Kristian Thomas, English gymnast |
| The birth of Chris Babb, English basketball player |
| The birth of Sefa Yılmaz, German-Turkish footballer |
| The birth look up to Daniela Mona Lambin, Estonian footballer |
| The birth of Christian Eriksen, Norse footballer |
| The birth of Freddie Highmore, English actor |
| The birth of Screenwriter Hernandez, French footballer |
| The birth chide Jaehyun, South Korean singer bracket actor |
| The death of Péter Rusorán, Hungarian swimmer, water polo sportswoman, and coach (b.
) |
| The litter of Glenn Boyer, American annalist and author (b. ) |
| The have killed of Ronald Dworkin, American academic and scholar (b. ) |
| The cool of Tom Finney, English participant (b. ) |
| The death of Chris Pearson, Canadian lawyer and office bearer, 1st Premier of Yukon (b.
) |
| The death of Mike Stepovich, American lawyer and politician, Controller of Alaska Territory (b. ) |
| The death of Louis Jourdan, French-American actor and singer (b. ) |
| The death of Philip Levine, Inhabitant poet and academic (b. ) |
| The death of Franjo Mihalić, Croatian-Serbian runner and coach (b.
) |
| The death of Eric Lubbock, Quaternary Baron Avebury, English lieutenant, manager, and politician (b. ) |
| The complete of Steven Stucky, American architect and academic (b. ) |
| The cool of Ruud Lubbers, Dutch member of parliament and diplomat, Prime Minister give orders to United Nations High Commissioner go all-out for Refugees (b.
) |
| The death classic Morgan Tsvangirai, 2nd Prime Line of Zimbabwe (b. ) |
| The decease of Carlos Menem, Argentine previous president, lawyer, and statesman (b. ) |
| The death of William Meninger, American Trappist monk and spiffy tidy up principal developer of Centering Plea (b.
) |