EVENTS:
- 323 BC – Alexander the Great dies in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon
- 1805 – A fire consumes large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory.
- 1825 – The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
- 1935 – Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey.
- 1978 – Altaf Hussain founds the students’ political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.
- 1981 – A Richter Scale 6.9 magnitude earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000.
- 2002 – Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
- 2012 – Two earthquakes struck northern Afghanistan, causing a large landslide, which buried the town of Sayi Hazara, trapping 71 people. After four days of digging, only five bodies were recovered and the search was called off.
- 2013 – Greece’s public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras.
- 2015 – Greece’s public broadcaster ERT is reopened by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras.
- 2018 – United States President Donald J. Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea held the first-ever meeting between leaders of their two countries in Singapore.
- 2019 – Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is inaugurated as the second president of Kazakhstan.
- 2024 – A fire in a residential building in Mangaf, Kuwait City kills at least 50 people.
BIRTHS:
- 1894 – Kiichiro Toyoda, Japanese businessman, founded Toyota (d. 1952)
- 1903 – Ernie Nevers, American football player (d. 1976)
- 1910 – Jacques Cousteau, French biologist, author, and inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung (d. 1997)
- 1937 – Robin Warren, Australian pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1947 – Lalu Prasad Yadav, Indian politician
- 1950 – Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish computer scientist, created C++
- 1978 – Ujjwala Raut, Indian model
- 1979 – Amy Duggan, Australian footballer
- 1984 – Vágner Love, Brazilian footballer
- 1996 – Hakeeb Adelakun, English footballer
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Davis Day (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada)
- Kamehameha Day, official state holiday of Hawaii, United States
- Matralia, in honor of Mater Matuta. (Roman Empire)
- American Evacuation Day (Libya)
- Student Day (Honduras)
