On this day in 1980, flood in Ibadan, after 12 hours of heavy downpour killed over 300 people and properties worth million destroyed.
On this day in 1992, Pascal Lissouba was inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo.
On this day in 1996, Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.
On this day in 1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul died in a car crash in Paris.
On this day in 2006, Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, was recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.