EVENTS:
- 1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
- 1911 – IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
- 1911 – A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
- 1915 – Foundation of the British Women’s Institute.
- 1972 – The largest single-site hydroelectric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls Generating Station.
- 1977 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
- 2010 – Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.
- 2012 – China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts – including the first female Chinese astronaut, Liu Yang – to the Tiangong-1 orbital module.
- 2013 – A multi-day cloudburst centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand caused devastating floods and landslides becoming the country’s worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami.
- 2016 – Shanghai Disneyland Park, the first Disney Park in Mainland China opens to the public.
- 2019 – Upwards of 2,000,000 people participate in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, the largest in Hong Kong’s history.
BIRTHS:
- 1897 – Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
- 1902 – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
- 1927 – Tom Graveney, English cricketer
- 1948 – V. Hanumantha Rao, Indian politician
- 1950 – Mithun Chakraborty, Indian actor
- 1973 – Nikos Machlas, Greek footballer
- 1980 – Martin Stranzl, Austrian footballer
- 1986 – Rodrigo Defendi, Brazilian footballer
- 1986 – Farhad Reza, Bangladeshi cricketer
- 1994 – Aarya Ambekar, Indian singer
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