The Iraq War officially ended when the United States formally declared that its mission in Iraq was over. 2011.

The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopened in Pisa, Italy, after more than 10 years of work to stabilize the structure. 2001. 

The U.S. Department of Defense ordered that all Americans in its service (about 2.5 million people) be inoculated against anthrax, a potential weapon of biological warfare. 1997. 

Janet Jagan was elected president of Guyana, becoming the first elected female president in South America and the first white president of Guyana. 1997.

Antigovernment demonstrations erupted in Timișoara, Romania, beginning the revolution that toppled the communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu from power a few days afterward. 1989. 

The Lakota (Teton) chief Sitting Bull was killed on the Grand River in South Dakota by Native police and soldiers who had been sent by the U.S. government to arrest him so as to prevent him from leading an insurrection. 1890.