EVENTS:
- 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.”
- 1922 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
- 1933 – An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 115 people and causes an estimated $40 million in damage.
- 1980 – Madeira School headmistress Jean Harris shoots and kills Scarsdale diet doctor Herman Tarnower
- 2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
- 2015 – A passenger train collides with a lorry on a level crossing at Dien Sanh, Vietnam leaving one person dead and several others injured.
- 2017 – The impeachment of President Park Geun-hye of South Korea in response to a major political scandal is unanimously upheld by the country’s Constitutional Court, ending her presidency.
- 2019 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashes shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa for Nairobi, Kenya. All 157 people on board are killed.
- 2022 – 2022 Hungarian presidential election: The National Assembly of Hungary elects former minister for Family Affairs, Katalin Novák, as president of Hungary in a 137–51 vote, becoming the first female president in the country’s history.
- 2023 – Silicon Valley Bank collapses due to a run on its deposits, in the second largest bank failure in US history. Its operations are taken over by the FDIC.
- 2024 – 2024 Portuguese legislative election: Elections are held in Portugal for all 230 seats in the Assembly of the Republic. The Partido Socialista loses its absolute majority to the Partido Social Democrata, winning 77 and 79 seats respectively.
BIRTHS:
- 1923 – Val Logsdon Fitch, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
- 1932 – Udupi Ramachandra Rao, Indian physicist and engineer
- 1935 – Graham Farmer, Australian footballer and coach
- 1945 – Madhavrao Scindia, Indian politician, Indian Minister of Railways (d. 2001)
- 1950 – Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Pakistani terrorist
- 1961 – Bobby Petrino, American football player and coach
- 1965 – Rod Woodson, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
- 1973 – Chris Sutton, English footballer and manager
- 1987 – Martellus Bennett, American football player
- 1993 – Jack Butland, English footballer
- 2000 – Nick Bolton, American football player
- 2008 – Francesco Camarda, Italian footballer
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
