| 1968 | Apollo program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital crewed mission to the Moon. |
| 1978 | Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of fascist dictatorship. |
| 1983 | Pope John Paul II visits Mehmet Ali Ağca in Rebibbia's prison and personally forgives him for the 1981 attack on him in St.
Peter's Square. |
| 1985 | Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside the airports of Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria. |
| 1989 | The Romanian Revolution concludes, as the last minor street confrontations and stray shootings abruptly end in the country's capital, Bucharest. |
| 1991 | Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 751 crashes in Gottröra in the Norrtälje Municipality in Sweden, injuring 25. |
| 1996 | Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram Airfield which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul, Afghanistan. |
| 1997 | Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. |
| 2002 | Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarte
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