EVENTS:
- 1929 – The Adventures of Tintin, one of the most popular European comic books, is first published in Belgium.
- 1962 – Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle. It became better known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
- 1972 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
- 1990 – Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
- 1999 – Sanjeev Nanda kills three policemen in New Delhi, India with his car, an act for which he was later acquitted, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the Indian legal system.
- 2012 – A bombing in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and 78 others injured.
- 2013 – More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.
- 2015 – A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger coach en route to Shikarpur from Karachi on the Pakistan National Highway Link Road near Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Karachi, kills at least 62 people.
- 2019 – A 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is found alive in Gordon, Wisconsin, having been kidnapped 88 days earlier from her parents’ home whilst they were murdered.
BIRTHS:
- 1881 – Leslie Rainey, Australian cricketer and footballer (d. 1962)
- 1894 – Pingali Lakshmikantam, Indian poet and author (d. 1972)
- 1903 – Pud Thurlow, Australian cricketer (d. 1975)
- 1916 – Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
- 1918 – Les Bennett, English footballer and manager (d. 1999)
- 1936 – Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1942 – Graeme Gahan, Australian footballer and coach
- 1949 – Allu Aravind, Indian actor and producer
- 1954 – John Gidman, English footballer and manager
- 1954 – Greg Towns, Australian footballer
- 1981 – James Coppinger, English footballer
- 1989 – Kyle Reimers, Australian footballer
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
•Majority Rule Day (Bahamas)
