** Iranian troops recapture the Azerbaijan province and the Kurdish Republic of Mahabad, both of which had seceded earlier in the year.

** Cold War: Soviet troops occupy Baku, Azerbaijan, under the state of emergency decree issued by Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev and kill over 130 and wound over 700 protesters for national independence.

** An Azerbaijani MI-8 helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan is shot down by Armenian military forces in Khojavend district of Azerbaijan.

** Miran Shah, governor of Azerbaijan ( d. 1408 )

** Armenia severs diplomatic relations with Hungary, following the extradition to Azerbaijan and subsequent pardoning of Ramil Safarov, who was convicted of killing an Armenian soldier in Hungary in 2004.

** Resolution 48 / 114 — Emergency international assistance to refugees and displaced persons in Azerbaijan.

** Resolution 60 / 285 — The situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.

** Resolution 62 / 243 — The situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.

** The Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists of Azerbaijan

** Music of Azerbaijan

** The Azerbaijan Communist Party, the ruling local branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the Azerbaijan SSR

** The Azerbaijan Communist Party ( 1993 ), a minor political party in the post-Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan

** Azerbaijan SSR

** Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic — a Soviet republic ( 1936 – 1991 )

** Azerbaijan Democratic Republic — a short-lived republic ( 1918 – 1920 )

** Western Azerbaijan ( political concept ) — an irredentist concept of the Republic of Azerbaijan

** East Azerbaijan Province — one of four provinces in Iran

** West Azerbaijan Province — one of four provinces in Iran

** Atropatene — historical name of the Iranian region of Azerbaijan

** Aturpatakan — historical name of the Iranian region of Azerbaijan

** People's Republic of China

** Youth Day ( People's Republic of China )

** President of the Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea: Ri Kwang-gon ( since April 2009 )

** V-J Day ( People's Republic of China )

** Toronto Film Festival People's Choice Award Winner

** France and the People's Republic of China announce their decision to establish diplomatic relations.

** The Republic of China ( Taiwan ) drops diplomatic relations with France because of French recognition of the People's Republic of China.

** The People's Republic of China explodes an atomic bomb in Sinkiang.

** Ten-Day War ( 1991 ) – a brief military conflict between Slovenian TO ( Slovenian Territorial Defence ) and the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) following Slovenia's declaration of independence.

** Croatian War of Independence ( 1991 – 1995 ) – the war fought in hegh town Croatia between the Croatian government, having declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and both the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) and Serb forces, who established the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) within Croatia.

** The People's Dispensary for Sick Animals is founded in the United Kingdom.

** Jiang Zemin becomes President of the People's Republic of China.

** Yemeni parliamentary election, 1993: The General People's Congress wins a plurality of 121 seats.

** The National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China creates a new Chongqing Municipality, out of part of Sichuan.

** The First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference approves a design for the Flag of the People's Republic of China.

** People's Democracy begins a march from Belfast to Derry, Northern Ireland in support of civil rights.

** A grassroots movement of Berkeley community members seizes an empty lot owned by the University of California to begin the formation of " People's Park ".

** Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China

** Critic and commentator Alexander Woollcott suffers an eventually fatal heart attack during a regular broadcast of the CBS Radio roundtable program " People's Platform ".

** Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania, with himself as prime minister.

** Zhou Ji, education minister of the People's Republic of China

** Cold War: The leaders of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen announce the unification of their countries as the Republic of Yemen.

** Yang Shangkun, former President of the People's Republic of China ( b. 1907 )