EVENTS:
- 1791 – The first U.S. Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.
- 1859 – The first modern revival of the Olympic Games takes place in Athens, Greece.
- 1914 – Harry Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related injuries in the “Ohio League“, the direct predecessor to the National Football League.
- 1920 – First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
- 1926 – The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
- 1971 – Intel releases the world’s first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
- 1990 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
- 2000 – Jharkhand state comes into existence in India.
- 2006 – Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.
- 2007 – Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world’s largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans.
- 2012 – Four people are killed and 16 others are injured in the Midland train crash after a Union Pacific train struck a parade float in Midland, Texas.
- 2016 – Hong Kong High Court bans elected politicians Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung from the city’s Parliament.
- 2017 – A flood a few miles outside of Athens results in the death of 25 people.
- 2020 – Lewis Hamilton wins the Turkish Grand Prix and secures his seventh drivers’ title, equalling the all-time record held by Michael Schumacher.
- 2022 – The world population reached eight billion.
BIRTHS:
- 1862 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1946)
- 1874 – August Krogh, Danish zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
- 1903 – Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer and coach (d. 1974)
- 1914 – V. R. Krishna Iyer, Indian lawyer and judge (d. 2014)
- 1936 – Tara Singh Hayer, Indian-Canadian journalist and publisher (d. 1998)
- 1957 – Michael Woythe, German footballer and manager
- 1967 – Wayne Harrison, English footballer (d. 2013)
- 1977 – Robaire Smith, American football player
- 1978 – Floyd Womack, American football player
- 1982 – Lofa Tatupu, American football player
- 1992 – Kevin Wimmer, Austrian footballer
- 1994 – Ekaterina Alexandrova, Russian tennis player
- 1997 – Paula Badosa, Spanish tennis player
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