EVENTS:
- 1303 – Ala ud din Khilji captures Chittorgarh.
- 1778 – The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
- 1789 – The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
- 1821 – The University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is officially opened.
- 1920 – The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
- 1966 – The Namibian War of Independence starts with the battle at Omugulugwombashe.
- 1978 – Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut, on board Soyuz 31.
- 2015 – Two U.S. journalists are shot and killed by a disgruntled former coworker while conducting a live report in Moneta, Virginia.
- 2017 – Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2004. The storm has caused at least eight fatalities and major damage.
- 2018 – Three people are killed and eleven wounded during a mass shooting at a Madden NFL ’19 video game tournament in Jacksonville, Florida.
- 2021 – During the 2021 Kabul airlift, a suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport kills 13 US military personnel and at least 169 Afghan civilians.
- 2023 – Exactly 5 years after the 2018 Jacksonville Landing shooting, there is another shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, leaving 3 people dead.
BIRTHS:
- 1740 – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, invented the hot air balloon (d. 1810)
- 1854 – Arnold Fothergill, English cricketer (d. 1932)
- 1882 – James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
- 1890 – Tommy Andrews, Australian cricketer (d. 1970)
- 1891 – Acharya Chatursen Shastri, Indian author (d. 1960)
- 1906 – Albert Sabin, Polish-American physician and virologist, developed the polio vaccine (d. 1993)
- 1910 – Mother Teresa, Macedonian-Indian nun and missionary, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
- 1927 – B. V. Doshi, Indian architect
- 1956 – Mark Mangino, American football player and coach
- 1970 – Brett Schultz, South African cricketer
- 1978 – Raja Kaasheff, English-Indian singer
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