| 1976 | The Space Shuttle Enterprise is unveiled by NASA. |
| 1978 | The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt. |
| 1980 | After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established. |
| 1980 | Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay. |
| 1983 | Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America. |
| 1991 | Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations. |
| 1991 | The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet. |
| 1992 | An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin. |
| 2001 | The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression. |
| 2006 | Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eru
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