- Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for the US presidency, is shot in the chest in Milwaukee. Despite the wound, he goes ahead with a scheduled speech.
- The idea of a Peace Corps is first suggested by Democratic US presidential candidate John F Kennedy to an audience of students at the University of Michigan.
- Vietnam turns over to US officials the remains of five Americans believed to have been murdered in Cambodia under Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime.
- Transworld Oil Shipping, a major supplier of oil to South Africa, ends all oil shipments to the country because of the "economic, political and social environment" in South Africa.
- More than 150 000 people take part in Cosatu-organised marches in 17 centres countrywide to protest against the Labour Relations Amendment Act.
- A judge in Rostov-on-Don, Russia convicts Andrei Chikatilo of the sex murders of 52 children and young women over a 12-year period. The horrific nature of the crimes makes Chikatilo one of the worst serial killers in history.
- Conservative Party politician Clive Derby-Lewis and Polish immigrant Janusz Walus are convicted in the Rand Supreme Court of assassinating SA Communist Party leader Chris Hani earlier in the year.
- Dozens of protesters shouting "Clinton go home!" burn an effigy of US President Bill Clinton and throw manure on his limousine, marring an otherwise smooth visit to Brazil.
- Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate and a critic of the Nigerian government, returns to his homeland for the first time in four years and is greeted by jubilant crowds.
- Former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, the father of Tanzanian independence and a symbol of Africa's hopes as it emerged from the shadow of colonial rule, dies at 77 of leukemia.
- Alija Izetbegovic, who led the Bosnian Muslims through Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War 2, resigns from the Bosnian presidency, leaving power in a manner rare in the Balkans.
- Britain suspends the Northern Ireland assembly, saying direct British rule was being introduced over the province because of "a loss of confidence on both sides of the community." It was the fourth suspension since December 1999.
- John Allen Muhammad, one of two suspects in a series of October 2002 sniper shootings in the Washington, DC area that killed 10 people and wounded three others, pleads not guilty to four murder charges as his trial proceedings begin in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Eamon de Valera, Irish statesman (1882-1975); Dwight D Eisenhower, US general and 34th US president (1890-1969); Roger Moore, British actor (1927--); Mobuto Sese Seko, Zairian dictator (1930-1997), Cliff Richard, British singer (1940--).
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