EVENTS:
- 1882 – Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.
- 1888 – George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
- 1957 – The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
- 1972 – Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.
- 1985 – The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
- 1998 – Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
- 2010 – Canterbury earthquake: A 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes the South Island of New Zealand at 4:35 am causing widespread damage and several power outages.
- 2022 – Ten people are killed and 15 are injured in a stabbing spree in 13 locations on the James Smith Cree Nation and in Weldon, Saskatchewan.[6]
- 2024 – A 14-year-old gunman kills four people and injures seven in a mass shooting at Apalachee High School near Winder, Georgia.
BIRTHS:
- 1825 – Dadabhai Naoroji, Indian academic and politician (d. 1917)
- 1902 – Thomas Mitchell, English cricketer (d. 1996)
- 1906 – Max Delbrück, German-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
- 1910 – Denis Tomlinson, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (d. 1993)
- 1913 – Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982)
- 1923 – Ram Kishore Shukla, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
- 1939 – Denis Lindsay, South African cricketer and referee (d. 2005)
- 1941 – Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian politician, 19th Governor of Andhra Pradesh
- 1944 – Dave Bassett, English footballer and manager
- 1950 – Ehteshamuddin, Pakistani cricketer
- 1952 – Rishi Kapoor, Indian actor, director, and producer
- 1961 – Rizwan-uz-Zaman, Pakistani cricketer
- 1962 – Kiran More, Indian cricketer
- 1974 – Naved Ashraf, Pakistani cricketer
- 1981 – Richard Garcia, Australian footballer
- 2000 – Sergio Gómez, Spanish footballer
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Immigrant’s Day (Argentina)
- Newspaper Carrier Day (United States)
- The first day of the Ludi Romani until 19 September. (Roman Empire)
