EVENTS:
- 1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a “long belt” of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
- 1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
- 1892 – The General Electric Company is formed.
- 1896 – Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
- 1923 – Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
- 1924 – Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
- 1955 – McDonald’s restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois
- 1964 – The first Ford Mustang rolls off the show room floor, two days before it is set to go on sale nationwide.
- 1984 – The inaugural World Youth Day is held in St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City.
- 2013 – Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others.
- 2014 – More than 200 female students are declared missing after a mass kidnapping in Borno State, Nigeria.
- 2019 – The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in France is seriously damaged by a large fire.
- 2021 – A mass shooting occurred at a Fedex Ground facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, killing nine and injuring seven.
BIRTHS:
- 1841 – Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company Ltd (d. 1919)
- 1874 – Johannes Stark, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
- 1896 – Nikolay Semyonov, Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
- 1901 – Ajoy Mukherjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (d. 1986)
- 1907 – Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch-English ethologist and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
- 1922 – Hasrat Jaipuri, Indian poet and songwriter (d. 1999)
- 1931 – Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish psychologist, poet, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
- 1932 – Suresh Bhat, Indian poet and songwriter (d. 2003)
- 1962 – Surjit Bindrakhia, Indian singer (d. 2003)
- 1977 – Sudarsan Pattnaik, Indian sculptor
- 1986 – Tom Heaton, English footballer
- 1997 – Ashleigh Gardner, Australian cricketer
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