EVENTS:
- 1835 – Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake.
- 1872 – In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
- 1873 – The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco.
- 1901 – The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
- 1921 – The Young Communist League of Czechoslovakia is founded.
- 1962 – Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.
- 1965 – Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
- 2010 – In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of the archipelago.
- 2015 – Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as many as 49 people injured and Swiss Federal Railways cancelling some services.
- 2016 – Six people are killed and two injured in multiple shooting incidents in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
- 2019 – A fire in the old town of Dhaka claims 80 lives.
BIRTHS:
- 1857 – A. P. Lucas, English cricketer (d. 1923)
- 1901 – Ramakrishna Ranga Rao of Bobbili, Indian lawyer and politician, 6th Chief Minister of Madras Presidency (d. 1978)
- 1937 – Robert Huber, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1940 – Jimmy Greaves, English footballer and sportscaster
- 1947 – Peter Osgood, English footballer (d. 2006)
- 1951 – Phil Neal, English footballer and manager
- 1956 – Annu Kapoor, Indian actor
- 1981 – Tony Hibbert, English footballer
- 1981 – Fred Jackson, American football player
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Day of Heavenly Hundred Heroes (Ukraine)
- World Day of Social Justice (International)
