EVENTS:
- 1903 – A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, North-West Territories, Canada.
- 1953 – The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
- 1965 – Pakistan’s Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches its seventh rocket in its Rehber series.
- 1986 – A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
- 1986 – Chernobyl disaster: American and European Spy Satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant
- 1991 – A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249 km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless.
- 2004 – Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
- 2013 – A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, injures 43 people.
- 2015 – A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.
BIRTHS:
- 1863 – William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (d. 1951)
- 1893 – Harold Urey, American chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
- 1918 – George Allen, American football player and coach (d. 1990)
- 1936 – Zubin Mehta, Indian bassist and conductor
- 1944 – Francis Lee, English footballer and businessman
- 1958 – Kevin Moore, English footballer (d. 2013)
- 1974 – Pascal Cygan, French footballer
- 1979 – Ashish Nehra, Indian cricketer
- 1983 – Jay Cutler, American football player
- 1991 – Oviya, Indian model and actress
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