Junrey Balawing, only 23.6 inches tall, was declared the world's shortest man by the Guinness World Records on his eighteenth birthday. Balawing's family stated that he had stopped growing at the age of two and that doctors could not explain why he was so short. Balawing was over seven centimeters shorter than the previous record holder.

2000 Students on strike take over the main building of the Mexican National University. The students held hostages and put a red flag over the building. They demanded the university rector to resign, but he refused. Eventually the students let the hostages go, but they still kept guard over the building.