On this day in 1998, the European Central Bank was founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.
On this day in 2000, President Bill Clinton announced that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
On this day in 2008, Cyclone Nargis made landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
On this day in 2011, Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man, was killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.