EVENTS:
- 1760 – Ahmad Shah Durrani defeats the Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
- 1857 – The 7.9 Mw Fort Tejon earthquake shakes Central and Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent).
- 1880 – The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high winds and heavy snow.
- 1894 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
- 1965 – The Mirzapur Cadet College formally opens for academic activities in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
- 2007 – Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the first iPhone.
- 2011 – Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Orumiyeh in the northeast of the country, killing 77 people.
- 2014 – An explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan, kills at least five people and injures 17 others.
- 2015 – The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation; a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurs at a Jewish market in Vincennes.
- 2015 – A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involving beer that was contaminated with Burkholderia gladioli leaves 75 dead and over 230 people ill.
- 2021 – Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashes north of Jakarta, Indonesia, carrying 62 passengers onboard.
BIRTHS:
- 1889 – Vrindavan Lal Verma, Indian author and playwright (d. 1969)
- 1920 – Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh (d. 1998)
- 1922 – Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-American biochemist and academic, Nobel laureate (d. 2011)
- 1925 – Len Quested, English footballer and manager (d. 2012)
- 1927 – Sunderlal Bahuguna, Indian environmentalist
- 1934 – Bart Starr, American football player and coach
- 1952 – Kaushik Basu, Indian economist and academic
- 1959 – Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemalan activist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1974 – Farhan Akhtar, Indian actor, singer, director, and producer
- 1990 – Justin Blackmon, American football player
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Martyrs’ Day (Panama)
- Non-Resident Indian Day (India)
- Peace Agreement Day (South Sudan)
