EVENTS:
- 1839 – The British East India Company captures Aden.
- 1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
- 1917 – Seventy-three are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
- 1920 – The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
- 1975 – An earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India
- 1977 – Snow falls in Miami. This is the only time in the history of the city that snow has fallen. It also fell in The Bahamas.
- 1983 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
- 1986 – The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written.
- 2006 – The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.
- 2014 – A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 soldiers and injures 38 others.
- 2017 – Plasco Building collapses in Tehran.
- 2024 – The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s probe landed on the moon, making Japan the 5th country to land a spacecraft on the moon.
BIRTHS:
- 1878 – Herbert Chapman, English footballer and manager (d. 1934)
- 1912 – Leonid Kantorovich, Russian mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
- 1922 – Arthur Morris, Australian cricketer and journalist (d. 2015)
- 1930 – John Waite, South African cricketer (d. 2011)
- 1957 – Ottis Anderson, American football player and sportscaster
- 1969 – Junior Seau, American football player (d. 2012)
- 1972 – Troy Wilson, Australian footballer and race car driver
- 1980 – Michael Vandort, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1984 – Karun Chandhok, Indian race car driver
- 1985 – Jake Allen, American football player
- 1987 – Angus Monfries, Australian footballer
- 1989 – Miles Addison, English footballer
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