EVENTS:
- 1381 – Beginning of the Peasants’ Revolt in England.
- 1631 – Publication of La Gazette, the first French newspaper.
- 1911 – At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
- 1922 – The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
- 1932 – The National Theatre of Greece is founded.
- 1966 – Launch of Surveyor 1 the first US spacecraft to land on an extraterrestrial body.
- 1971 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
- 1974 – The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.
- 1998 – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
- 2003 – Depayin massacre: At least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi fled the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards.
- 2012 – Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
- 2020 – The Crew Dragon Demo-2 launches from the Kennedy Space Center, becoming the first crewed orbital spacecraft to launch from the United States since 2011 and the first commercial flight to the International Space Station.
- 2024 – Donald Trump is convicted of falsifying business records in his New York trial, the first time a former President of the United States has been found guilty in a criminal case.
BIRTHS:
- 1879 – Colin Blythe, English cricketer (d. 1917)
- 1895 – Maurice Tate, English cricketer (d. 1956)
- 1908 – Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
- 1912 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
- 1943 – Gale Sayers, American football player
- 1949 – Bob Willis, English cricketer
- 1950 – Paresh Rawal, Indian actor
- 1970 – Ness Wadia, Indian businessman
- 1985 – Jennifer Winget, Indian actress
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
