EVENTS:
- 1937 – Daffy Duck‘s first appearance, in Porky’s Duck Hunt.
- 1964 – Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air.
- 1970 – Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
- 1971 – The People’s Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Mujibnagor.
- 1972 – Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- 1973 – George Lucas begins writing the treatment for The Star Wars.
- 1978 – Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d’état in Afghanistan.
- 1986 – The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years’ War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends.
- 1986 – Nezar Hindawi‘s attempt to detonate a bomb aboard an El Al flight from London to Tel Aviv is thwarted.
- 2013 – An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.
- 2014 – NASA‘s Kepler confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.
- 2019 – A tourist bus overturned on the Portuguese island of Madeira, killing 29 passengers mostly German tourists.
- 2021 – The funeral of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, takes place at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.
BIRTHS:
- 1756 – Dheeran Chinnamalai, Indian commander (d. 1805)
- 1820 – Alexander Cartwright, American firefighter, invented Baseball (d. 1892)
- 1837 – J. P. Morgan, American banker and financier, founded J.P. Morgan & Co. (d. 1913)
- 1897 – Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian philosopher and educator (d. 1981)
- 1923 – Lindsay Anderson, Indian-English actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1994)
- 1927 – Chandra Shekhar, Indian politician, 8th Prime Minister of India (d.2007)
- 1966 – Vikram, Indian actor, singer, and producer
- 1972 – Muttiah Muralitharan, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1979 – Siddharth, Indian actor, singer, and producer
- 1989 – Sunaina, Indian actress
- 1990 – Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer
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