EVENTS:
- 1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
- 1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers’ first public flight.
- 1942 – Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi’s call for swaraj or complete independence.
- 1946 – First flight of the Convair B-36, the world’s first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle.
- 1991 – The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
- 2010 – 2010 China floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.
- 2013 – A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people.
- 2015 – Eight people are killed in a shooting in Harris County, Texas.
- 2016 – Terrorists attack a government hospital in Quetta, Pakistan with a suicide blast and shooting, killing between 70 and 94 people, and injuring around 130 others.
- 2019 – An explosion at the State Central Navy Testing Range in Nyonoksa, Russia, kills five people.
- 2022 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executes a search warrant at former president Donald Trump‘s residence in Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida.
- 2023 – Hawaii wildfires: Seventeen thousand acres of land are burned and at least 101 people are killed, with two others missing, when a series of wildfires break out on the island of Maui in Hawaii.
- 2024 – Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus takes oath as Chief Adviser to form an interim government in Bangladesh.
BIRTHS:
- 1889 – Jack Ryder, Australian cricketer (d. 1977)
- 1901 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
- 1902 – Paul Dirac, English-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
- 1909 – Bill Voce, England cricketer and coach (d. 1984)
- 1921 – Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian pathologist (d. 2001)
- 1934 – Sarat Pujari, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
- 1940 – Dilip Sardesai, Indian cricketer (d. 2007)
- 1951 – Phil Carlson, Australian cricketer
- 1952 – Sudhakar Rao, Indian cricketer
- 1964 – Paul Taylor, English cricketer
- 1968 – Abey Kuruvilla, Indian cricketer and coach
- 1977 – Mohammad Wasim, Pakistani cricketer
- 1998 – Ryan Garcia, American boxer
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