EVENTS:
- 1509 – An earthquake known as “The Lesser Judgment Day” hits Constantinople.
- 1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
- 1858 – George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
- 1919 – Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
- 1935 – India’s first all-boys public school, The Doon School, is founded.
- 1936 – First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at London’s (England) Wembley Stadium.
- 1960 – At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
- 1974 – Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
- 2014 – The first Invictus Games took place at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.
- 2017 – Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida as a Category 4.
- 2022 – Death of Queen Elizabeth II: King Charles III is formally proclaimed as monarch at a meeting of the Accession Council in St James’s Palace.
BIRTHS:
- 1872 – Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer (d. 1933)
- 1887 – Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (d. 1961)
- 1892 – Arthur Compton, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
- 1895 – Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian poet and author (d. 1976)
- 1912 – Basappa Danappa Jatti, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th Vice President of India (d. 2002)
- 1940 – Buck Buchanan, American football player (d. 1992)
- 1948 – Charlie Waters, American football player, coach, and radio host
- 1968 – Andreas Herzog, Austrian footballer and manager
- 1980 – Jayam Ravi, Indian actor
- 1982 – Javi Varas, Spanish footballer
- 1983 – Jérémy Toulalan, French footballer
- 1989 – Manish Pandey, Indian cricketer
- 2001 – Nick Cross, American football player
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Edmund James Peck, Missionary to the Eskimo, 1924 (commemoration, Anglican Church of Canada)
- National Day (Gibraltar)
- Teachers’ Day (People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong)
- World Suicide Prevention Day (international)
