EVENTS:
- 1898 – Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
- 1910 – The University of the Philippines College of Engineering is established. This unit of the university is said to be the largest degree granting unit in the Philippines.
- 1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune (the furthest planet from the Sun at the time).
- 1997 – Uphaar cinema fire, in New Delhi, India, killed 59 people, and over 100 people injured.
- 2007 – The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time.
- 2010 – A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.
- 2012 – A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.
- 2015 – A man opens fire at policemen outside the police headquarters in the Texas city of Dallas, while a bag containing a pipe bomb is also found. He was later shot dead by police.
- 2018 – Volkswagen is fined one billion euros over the emissions scandal.
- 2021 – A gas explosion in Zhangwan district of Shiyan city, in Hubei province of China kills at least 12 people and wounds over 138 others.
- 2023 – At least 100 people are killed when a wedding boat capsizes on the Niger River in Kwara State, Nigeria.
- 2023 – Three people are killed and another three injured in an early morning stabbing and van ramming attack in Nottingham, England.
BIRTHS:
- 1865 – W. B. Yeats, Irish poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1939)
- 1870 – Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
- 1909 – E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian politician, 1st Chief Minister of Kerala (d. 1998)
- 1910 – Mary Whitehouse, English activist, founded the National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association (d. 2001)
- 1911 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
- 1928 – John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1970 – Chris Cairns, New Zealand cricketer
- 1975 – Ante Čović, Australian footballer
- 1980 – Darius Vassell, English footballer
- 1991 – Ryan Mason, English footballer
- 2001 – Bowen Byram, Canadian ice hockey player
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
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