EVENTS:
- 1872 – The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
- 1936 – In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
- 1966 – Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1967 – The People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1967 – The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who becomes its first chairman.
- 1982 – Michael Jackson‘s second solo album, Thriller is released worldwide. It will become the best-selling record album in history.
- 1993 – American National Football League awards 30th franchise to the Jacksonville Jaguars.
- 1998 – Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world’s largest company.
- 2004 – Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
- 2012 – An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane belonging to Aéro-Service, crashes into houses near Maya-Maya Airport during a thunderstorm, killing at least 32 people.
- 2018 – A magnitude 7.0 earthquake with its epicenter only 15 miles from Anchorage, Alaska causes significant property damage but no deaths.
BIRTHS:
- 1817 – Theodor Mommsen, German jurist, historian, and scholar, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1903)
- 1857 – Bobby Abel, English cricketer (d. 1936)
- 1858 – Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist, biologist, botanist, and archaeologist (d. 1937)
- 1869 – Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)
- 1888 – Harry Altham, English crickter, historian and coach (d. 1965)
- 1889 – Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1977)
- 1915 – Henry Taube, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
- 1931 – Bill Walsh, American football player and coach (d. 2007)
- 1933 – Norman Deeley, English footballer and manager (d. 2007)
- 1960 – Gary Lineker, English footballer and sportscaster
- 1962 – Bo Jackson, American football and baseball player
- 1967 – Rajiv Dixit, Indian author and activist (d. 2010)
- 1970 – Phil Babb, English footballer and manager
- 1975 – Ben Thatcher, English footballer
- 1980 – Jamie Ashdown, English footballer
- 1981 – Zabiuddin Ansari, Indian-Pakistani accused terrorist
- 1988 – Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer (d. 2014)
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