EVENTS:
- 1856 – The Great Train Wreck of 1856 in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, kills over 60 people.
- 1867 – Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.
- 1933 – After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances.
- 1955 – Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
- 1975 – Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
- 2007 – TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) Flight 3054 crashes upon landing during rain in São Paulo. This is Brazil’s deadliest aviation accident to date with 199 deaths.
- 2015 – At least 120 people are killed and 130 injured by a suicide bombing in Diyala Province, Iraq.
- 2018 – Scott S. Sheppard announces that his team has discovered a dozen irregular moons of Jupiter.
BIRTHS:
- 1888 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Ukrainian-Israeli author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
- 1911 – Ted Anderson, English footballer (d. 1979)
- 1917 – Bijon Bhattacharya, Indian stage and film actor (d. 1978)
- 1920 – Gordon Gould, American physicist, invented the laser (d. 2005)
- 1923 – John Cooper, English car designer, co-founded the Cooper Car Company (d. 2000)
- 1933 – Tony Pithey, South African cricketer (d. 2006)
- 1941 – Bob Taylor, English cricketer
- 1944 – Mark Burgess, New Zealand cricketer and footballer
- 1960 – Kim Barnett, English cricketer
- 1961 – Roy Pienaar, South African cricketer
- 1975 – Andre Adams, New Zealand cricketer
- 1977 – Lehmber Hussainpuri, Indian singer
- 1982 – Omari Banks, Indian cricketer
- 2005 – Connor Bedard, Canadian ice hockey player
