EVENTS:
- 1755 – Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day.
- 1792 – The London Corresponding Society is founded.
- 1879 – The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
- 1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
- 1918 – Ukraine declares independence from Bolshevik Russia.
- 1949 – At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.
- 1980 – Mother Teresa is honored with India’s highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna
- 1994 – The Clementine space probe launches.
- 1998 – A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka‘s Temple of the Tooth kills eight and injures 25 others.
- 1999 – A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
- 2005 – A stampede at the Mandhradevi temple in Maharashtra, India kills at least 258.
- 2010 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean. All 90 passengers and crew were killed.
- 2013 – At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
- 2015 – A clash in Mamasapano, Maguindanao in the Philippines killing 44 members of Special Action Force (SAF), at least 18 from Moro Islamic Liberation Front and five from Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.
- 2019 – A mining company’s dam collapsed in Brazil, Brumadinho, a south-eastern city, killing at least 7 people and 200 missing.
BIRTHS:
- 1824 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Indian poet and playwright (d. 1873)
- 1917 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian-Belgian chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
- 1923 – Arvid Carlsson, Swedish pharmacologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1924 – Lou Groza, American football player and coach (d. 2000)
- 1925 – Gordy Soltau, American football player and sportscaster (d. 2014)
- 1942 – Carl Eller, American football player and sportscaster
- 1949 – Paul Nurse, English geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1958 – Kavita Krishnamurthy, Indian singer
- 1970 – Milt Stegall, American football player and sportscaster
- 1981 – Francis Jeffers, English footballer
- 1985 – Patrick Willis, American football player
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Burns Night (Scotland and Scottish community)
- 2011 Revolution Day (Egypt)
- National Police Day (Egypt)
- National Voters’ Day (India)
