On this day in 1985, Rembrandt's painting Danaë was attacked by a man who threw sulfuric acidon the canvas and cut it twice with a knife. The man was later judged insane.
On this day in 1992, the United States Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the United States to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the USA for trial, without approval from those other countries.
On this day in 2001, leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
On this day in 2014, Pakistan formally launched military operation against the insurgents in North Waziristan.