EVENTS:
- 1911 – In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
- 1947 – An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
- 1948 – The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
- 1975 – Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
- 1992 – The Pakistan national cricket team wins the 1992 Cricket World Cup at Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- 1995 – WikiWikiWeb, the world’s first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.
- 2006 – Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006, clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.
- 2018 – Syrian civil war: Following the completion of the Afrin offensive, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) initiate an insurgency against the Turkish occupation of the Afrin District.
BIRTHS:
- 1868 – Bill Lockwood, English cricketer (d. 1932)
- 1914 – Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
- 1916 – S. M. Pandit, Indian painter and educator (d. 1993)
- 1927 – P. Shanmugam, Indian politician, 13th Chief Minister of Puducherry (d. 2013)
- 1946 – Cliff Balsom, English footballer
- 1948 – Farooq Sheikh, Indian actor and philanthropist (d. 2013)
- 1953 – Haroon Rasheed, Pakistani cricketer and coach
- 1989 – Scott Sinclair, English footballer
- 1993 – Sam Johnstone, English footballer
- 2000 – Ozan Kabak, Turkish footballer
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