On this day in 2000, President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea met Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
On this day in 2002, two 14-year-old South Korean girls were struck and killed by a United States Army armored vehicle, leading to months of public protests against the U.S.
On this day in 2005, a jury in Santa Maria, California acquitted pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.
On this day in 2015, a man opened fire at policemen outside the police headquarters in the Texas city of Dallas, while a bag containing a pipe bomb was also found. He was later shot dead by police.