EVENTS:
- 1851 – William Lassell, discovers the moons Umbriel, and Ariel, orbiting Uranus.
- 1857 – Sheffield F.C., the world’s oldest association football club still in operation, is founded in Sheffield, England.
- 1911 – Orville Wright, remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider, at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
- 1946 – A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
- 1949 – The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid.
- 1964 – Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia remained a colony until the next year, with the Unilateral Declaration of Independence).
- 1992 – The Toronto Blue Jays become the first Major League Baseball team based outside the United States to win the World Series.
- 2007 – Chang’e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
- 2014 – The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, Chang’e 5-T1, which will loop behind the Moon and return to Earth.
- 2015 – A driver, arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence (DUI), crashes into the Oklahoma State Homecoming parade in Stillwater, Oklahoma, killing four people and injuring 34.
- 2016 – A Fairchild Merlin airliner on a French surveillance mission crashes in Kirkop, Malta, killing all five people on board.
- 2018 – The world’s longest sea crossing, the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge, opens for public traffic.
BIRTHS:
- 1894 – Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Indian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1987)
- 1921 – Ted Ditchburn, English footballer and manager (d. 2005)
- 1921 – R. K. Laxman, Indian illustrator
- 1926 – Kidar Nath Sahani, Indian politician (d. 2012)
- 1926 – Y. A. Tittle, American football player
- 1932 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
- 1932 – Robert Mundell, Canadian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1934 – Ray Drake, English footballer (d. 2013)
- 1942 – Ian Collins, Australian footballer and coach
- 1949 – Chester Marcol, American football player
- 1949 – Stan White, American football player and sportscaster
- 1953 – John Barton, English footballer and manager
- 1962 – Yves Bertucci, French footballer and manager
- 1963 – Arvind Raghunathan, Indian businessman
- 1978 – James Hopes, Australian cricketer
- 1989 – Anderson Conceição, Brazilian footballer
- 1994 – Jalen Ramsey, American football player
- 1996 – Garrison Mathews, American basketball player
- 1999 – Amon-Ra St. Brown, American football player
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