EVENTS:
- 1783 – George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
- 1913 – The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System.
- 1921 – Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.
- 1936 – Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1947 – The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
- 1954 – First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.
- 1970 – The North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, New York is topped out at 1,368 feet (417 m), making it the tallest building in the world.
- 1970 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo officially becomes a single-party state.
- 1972 – A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the Nicaraguan capital of Managua killing more than 10,000.
- 2003 – PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.
- 2010 – A monsoonal trough crosses the northeastern coast of Australia from the Coral Sea, bringing mass flooding across Queensland.
- 2015 – A bomb explodes at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport, killing one airport cleaner. The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks claim responsibility for the attack four days later.
- 2016 – The United Nations Security Council adopts Resolution 2334 condemning “Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories occupied since 1967”.
BIRTHS:
- 1690 – Pamheiba, Indian emperor (d. 1751)
- 1843 – Richard Conner, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1924)
- 1902 – Charan Singh, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of India (d. 1987)
- 1911 – Niels Kaj Jerne, English-Danish physician and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
- 1923 – James Stockdale, American admiral and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2005)
- 1935 – Paul Hornung, American football player and sportscaster
- 1938 – Bob Kahn, American computer scientist and engineer, co-developed the Transmission Control Protocol
- 1948 – Jack Ham, American football player and sportscaster
- 1962 – Stefan Hell, Romanian-German physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1963 – Jim Harbaugh, American football player and coach
- 1969 – Rodney Culver, American football player (d. 1996)
- 1978 – Andra Davis, American football player
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