EVENTS:
- 1789 – William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
- 1898 – Caleb Bradham invents the carbonated soft drink that will later be called “Pepsi-Cola“.
- 1901 – Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. The first American private school in the country.
- 1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
- 1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
- 1990 – An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
- 2004 – Software Freedom Day is established and is firstly observed.
- 2009 – NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-128.
- 2016 – The first experimental mission of ISRO‘s Scramjet Engine towards the realisation of an Air Breathing Propulsion System is successfully conducted from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota.
- 2017 – China–India border standoff: China and India both pull their troops out of Doklam, putting an end to a two-month-long stalemate over China’s construction of a road in disputed territory.
- 2022 – 2022 Phoenix shooting: A man opens fire on pedestrians outside of a hotel in Phoenix, Arizona, resulting in the deaths of 3 people, including the perpetrator.
BIRTHS:
- 1878 – George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
- 1896 – Firaq Gorakhpuri, Indian author, poet, and critic (d. 1982)
- 1910 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American mathematician and economist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
- 1913 – Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1993)
- 1919 – Godfrey Hounsfield, English biophysicist and engineer Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
- 1924 – Tony MacGibbon, New Zealand cricketer and engineer (d. 2010)
- 1928 – Vilayat Khan, Indian sitar player and composer (d. 2004)
- 1948 – Murray Parker, New Zealand cricketer and educator
- 1953 – Ditmar Jakobs, German footballer
- 1961 – Deepak Tijori, Indian actor and director
- 1966 – Priya Dutt, Indian politician
- 1983 – Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Assumption of Mary (Eastern Orthodox Church, a public holiday in the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, and Georgia)
