EVENTS:
- 1356 – Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel, Switzerland.
- 1386 – Opening of the University of Heidelberg.
- 1921 – The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
- 1954 – Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
- 1967 – The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
- 1991 – The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
- 2007 – Karachi bombing: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto kills 139 and wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself is uninjured.
- 2019 – NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in the first all-female spacewalk when they venture out of the International Space Station to replace a power controller.[12]
- 2019 – Riots in Chile’s capital Santiago escalate into open battles, with attacks reported at nearly all of the city’s 164 Metro stations. President Sebastián Piñera later announces a 15-day state of emergency in the capital.
BIRTHS:
- 1859 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher and theologian, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
- 1933 – Forrest Gregg, American football player and coach
- 1939 – Mike Ditka, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
- 1946 – Frank Beamer, American football player and coach
- 1950 – Om Puri, Indian actor and singer
- 1969 – Nelson Vivas, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager
- 1971 – Koshalendraprasad Pande, Indian guru
- 1978 – Jyothika, Indian actress
- 1981 – Greg Warren, American football player
- 1984 – Freida Pinto, Indian actress and model
- 1991 – Roly Bonevacia, Dutch footballer
- 1996 – Terance Mann, American basketball player
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Alaska Day (Alaska)
- Independence day, celebrates the independence of (Azerbaijan) from Soviet Union in 1991.
- Necktie Day (Croatia, and others)
- Persons Day (Canada)
