EVENTS:
- 1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
- 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding father of Pakistan, gives a speech to the Constituent Assembly, the contents and meaning of which remain contentious today.
- 1959 – Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
- 1960 – Chad declares independence.
- 1961 – The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
- 2012 – At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
- 2015 – For the first time in Major League Baseball history, all 15 home teams won their game. Prior to this happening, the record was 12 which was reached over a century ago in 1914.
- 2017 – At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt.
- 2023 – Luna 25 launches from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.
BIRTHS:
- 1855 – John Hodges, Australian cricketer (d. 1933)
- 1858 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930)
- 1870 – Tom Richardson, English cricketer (d. 1912)
- 1892 – Archie Wiles, Indian cricketer (d. 1957)
- 1907 – Ted a’Beckett, Australian cricketer (d. 1989)
- 1926 – Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1943 – Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani general and politician, 10th President of Pakistan
- 1954 – M. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian cricketer and coach
- 1954 – Yashpal Sharma, Indian cricketer and umpire
- 1962 – Uvais Karnain, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1971 – Tommy Mooney, English footballer
- 1974 – Anju Jain, Indian cricketer and coach
- 1991 – Cristian Tello, Spanish footballer
- 2001 – Moyuka Uchijima, Japanese tennis player
- 2002 – Marvin Harrison Jr., American football player
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