EVENTS:
- 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
- 1864 – Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada’s worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
- 1927 – The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
- 1927 – First test of Wallace Turnbull’s controllable pitch propeller.
- 1975 – Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer.
- 1976 – The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
- 2002 – Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
- 2007 – Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
- 2012 – A derecho sweeps across the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.
- 2014 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declared its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq.
- 2003 – Jude Bellingham, English footballer
BIRTHS:
- 1793 – Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor, invented the propeller (d. 1857)
- 1892 – Henry Gerber, German-American activist, founded the Society for Human Rights (d. 1972)
- 1903 – Alan Blumlein, English engineer, developed the H2S radar (d. 1942)
- 1939 – Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
- 1939 – Amarildo Tavares da Silveira, Brazilian footballer and coach
- 1956 – A. K. Shiva Kumar, Indian economist
- 1969 – Pavlos Dermitzakis, Greek footballer and manager
- 1979 – Matthew Bode, Australian footballer
- 1979 – Andy O’Brien, English footballer
- 1993 – Fran Kirby, English footballer
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Seychelles from United Kingdom in 1976.
- Veterans Day (Netherlands, 2013)
- Engineer’s Day (Ecuador)
