** Sergi Gómez, Spanish footballer

** Adolfo León Gómez, Colombian poet ( born 1857 )

** Gómez Pereira, Spanish humanist philosopher ( born 1500 )

** Salvador Sánchez inflicts what many consider the greatest defeat in Puerto Rican boxing history, knocking Gómez out in the 8th round to retain the world Featherweight title.

** Gómez retains his world Jr. Featherweight title by 5th round knockout.

** Cotto defeats Gómez by technical knockout in the 5th round.

** Gómez Palacio

** Jon Fausty, Luca Germini, Jorge G. Gómez, Carlos Laurenz, Jose Lopez, Olga Santos, Jake Tanner, ( engineers ), Jorge G. Garcia ( engineer / mixer ), Oscar Gómez ( engineer / mixer & producer ), Sergio George ( producer ) & Celia Cruz for Regalo Del Alma

** ARA Gómez Roca ( P-46 )

** Carta de Rodrigo Gómez a Diego López de Zúñiga Mendoza Sotomayor, X Duque de Béjar informando de la concesión de un asiento de negros en el Río de la Plata a favor de Baltasar Coymans y pide recomendaciones personales para que su hijo Pedro sea empleado en ese negocio.

** Guido Gómez de Silva " Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua española " ( ISBN 968-16-2812-8 )

** Best Supporting Actor ( Mejor Actor de Reparto )-Fernando Fernán Gómez

** Norwegian parliamentary election, 1993: The Labour Party wins a plurality of the seats, and Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland retains office.

** The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ends: Although the United States Navy suffers heavy losses, it retains control of Guadalcanal.

** Syrian Prime Minister Hafez al-Assad forms a new government but retains the post of defense minister.

** East German leader Walter Ulbricht resigns as Communist Party leader but retains the position of head of state.

** Territoire de Belfort, a French département that retains its historical name from 1871 – 1919

** Armoured Ambulance – This version retains the turret but without the gun or smoke grenade launchers.

** Chávez retains his world Jr. Welterweight title with a 12 round decision.

** Chávez retains his WBC Super featherweight title with a unanimous Decision.

** Full-reserve banking is the hypothetical case where the reserve ratio is set to 100 %, and funds deposited are not lent out by the bank as long as the depositor retains the legal right to withdraw the funds on demand.

** Although Buffy retains many of her Slayer instincts, she and Spike feel no instinctive animosity towards each other, foreshadowing the significant change in direction of the relationship between the two in that season.

** The Ghost Train-a ghost train which retains its 1936 tracks

** A natural science – one that seeks to elucidate the rules that govern the natural world using empirical and scientific method.

** Silver in Best world player of the year IFFHS: 1989

** World Scout Moot, a gathering of older Scouts, mainly Rover Scouts, ages 18 – 26 from all over the world

** BI received an award by EDUNIVERSAL as one of the 35 most influential business schools in the world

** A natural science – one that seeks to elucidate the rules that govern the natural world using empirical and scientific method.

** After originating in the Philippines, the ILOVEYOU computer virus spreads quickly throughout the world.

** Judith Graham Pool publishes her discovery of cryoprecipitate, a substance that extends the lives of hemophiliacs around the world.

** The Super Dimension Fortress Macross ( 1982 – 1983 ): A huge spaceship appears high above Earth and crashes into an island in the Pacific, triggering a world war.

** Beverly Lynn Burns becomes the first woman Boeing 747 captain in the world.

** The United States Post Office Department ( later renamed the United States Postal Service ) begins the 3rd regular airmail service in the world ( between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC ), the 1st being from Allahabad to Naini Junction in India on the 18th February 1911 and the 2nd being from London to Windsor Castle on the 22nd June 1911.

** Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in world history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, in Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 dead.

** Tara Lipinski, 14, becomes the youngest women's world figure skating champion.

** Alain Mosconi, French swimmer, Olympic medalist and previous world record holder

** The world celebrates the beginning of the 20th century.

** Chess computer " Deep Blue " defeats world chess champion Garry Kasparov for the first time.

** Nurses Registration Act 1901 comes into effect in New Zealand, making it the first country in the world to require state registration of nurses.

** The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect ( it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers ).

** Max Conrad circumnavigates the earth in 8 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes, setting a new world record.

** The BC Ferries company, later to become the second-largest ferry operator in th world, commences service between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay, British Columbia, Canada.

** The U. S. Navy's Commander Leroy Heath ( the pilot ) and Lieutenant Larry Monroe ( the bombardier / navigator ) establish a world flight-altitude record of 91, 450 feet ( 27, 874 m ), with payload, in an A-5 Vigilante twinjet bomber carrying a 1, 000 kilogram payload, and they better the previous world record by over four miles ( 6 km ).

** John Mugabi, Ugandan boxer and world Junior Middleweight champion

** John Henry Newman founds the first Oratory in the English-speaking world when he establishes the Birmingham Oratory at ' Maryvale ', Old Oscott, England.

** Belgian Eddy Merckx sets a new world hour record in cycling in Mexico City.

** Mary Josephine Ray, Canadian woman supercentenarian and second oldest person in the world ( d. 2010 )