EVENTS:
- 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
- 1930 – International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern
- 1970 – An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
- 1983 – The first United States Football League game is played.
- 1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
- 1992 – The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
- 2008 – A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.
- 2018 – Forbes names Jeff Bezos as the world’s richest person, for the first time, at $112 billion net worth.
- 2020 – Thirty-two people are killed and 81 are injured when gunmen open fire on a ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack.
BIRTHS:
- 1898 – Gus Sonnenberg, American football player and wrestler (d. 1944)
- 1915 – Mohammed Burhanuddin, Indian spiritual leader, 52nd Da’i al-Mutlaq (d. 2014)
- 1927 – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
- 1939 – Adam Osborne, Thai-Indian engineer and businessman, founded the Osborne Computer Corporation (d. 2003)
- 1949 – Shaukat Aziz, Pakistani economist and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Pakistan
- 1973 – Greg Ostertag, American basketball player
- 1978 – Sage Rosenfels, American football player
- 1991 – Emma McDougall, English footballer (d. 2013)
- 1994 – Nathan Redmond, English footballer
- 2000 – Armando Bacot, American basketball player
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Foundation Day (Norfolk Island), the founding of Norfolk Island in 1788.
- Independence Day (Ghana), celebrates the independence of Ghana from the UK in 1957.
