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Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras. It would be opened exactly two years later by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras.

75 people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.

The first African FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit.

Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people.

Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.

Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.

Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.

Compaq Computer pays US$9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.

Prince of Liechtenstein (Regent of Liechtenstein 2004-)

English actress (Hotel Rwanda)

Miss Washington pageant winner

American actress (Coach)

New Zealand rugby union halfback (31 Tests; Canterbury

American swimmer (Olympic gold 400m

Russian soccer defensive utility (20 caps Soviet Union

Italian-American pop singer and songwriter (Exposé)

Mexican man who suffered from morbid obesity (peak weight of 600 kg)

Finnish swing jazz clarinetist

English composer (Lamentations of the Myrrhbearers)

French auto racer (201 x F1 GP starts

American athlete (Olympic silver 800m 1984; bronze 1988)

Croatian contemporary jazz fusion guitarist

Russian concert pianist (Rachmaninoff International