EVENTS:
- 1892 – Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
- 1933 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago’s Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4–2.
- 1944 – The Hartford Circus Fire, one of America’s worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.
- 1947 – The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
- 1964 – Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1975 – The Comoros declares independence from France.
- 2013 – A Boeing 777 operating as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes at San Francisco International Airport, killing 3 and injuring 181 of the 307 people on board.
- 2013 – A 73-car oil train derails in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec and explodes into flames, killing at least 47 people and destroying more than 30 buildings in the town’s central area.
- 2016 – The Iraq Inquiry is published after seven years by Sir John Chilcot; it publicises the critique of Tony Blair and his decision to go ahead with the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.
- 2021 – An Antonov An-26 operating as Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 crashes on approach to Palana Airport, killing all 28 aboard.
- 2022 – The Georgia Guidestones, a monument in the United States, are heavily damaged in a bombing, and are dismantled later the same day.
BIRTHS:
- 1837 – R. G. Bhandarkar, Indian orientalist and scholar (d. 1925)
- 1859 – Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
- 1890 – Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Indian-American scholar (d. 1936)
- 1903 – Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982)
- 1930 – M. Balamuralikrishna, Indian singer-songwriter
- 1958 – Mark Benson, English cricketer and umpire
- 1977 – Makhaya Ntini, South African cricketer
- 1981 – Nnamdi Asomugha, American football player
- 1985 – Ranveer Singh, Indian actor
- 1990 – Magaye Gueye, French footballer
- 2000 – Zion Williamson, American basketball player
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
