EVENTS:
- 1841 – Queen’s University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
- 1846 – William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
- 1869 – Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England’s first residential college for women.
- 1875 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
- 1905 – The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
- 1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
- 1945 – The Food and Agriculture Organization is founded in Quebec City, Canada.
- 1964 – China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
- 1984 – Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 2006 – Hawaii earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.
- 2013 – Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people.
- 2017 – Hurricane Ophelia makes eerie red sun and yellow sky from Sahara dust and ashes from Iberia causes 360,000 homes in Ireland without power and damage.
- 2024 – Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas, is killed in a firefight during the Israel–Hamas war
BIRTHS:
- 1876 – Jimmy Sinclair, South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 1913)
- 1888 – Eugene O’Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
- 1905 – Ernst Kuzorra, German footballer and manager (d. 1990)
- 1944 – Kaizer Motaung, South African footballer and manager
- 1948 – Hema Malini, Indian actress, director, producer, and politician
- 1949 – Crazy Mohan, Indian actor, screenwriter, and playwright
- 1967 – Michael Laffy, Australian footballer
- 1972 – Kordell Stewart, American football player and radio host
- 1973 – David Unsworth, English footballer and manager
- 1975 – Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer
- 1982 – Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indian actor, singer, and producer
- 1990 – Anirudh Ravichander, Indian singer-songwriter and actor
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