EVENTS:
- 1604 – William Shakespeare‘s tragedy Othello is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
- 1611 – William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
- 1755 – In Portugal, Lisbon is totally devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between 60,000 and 90,000 people.
- 1790 – Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
- 1805 – Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.
- 1848 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
- 1918 – Western Ukraine gains its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
- 1945 – Australia joins the United Nations.
- 1956 – In India, Kanyakumari district is joined to Tamil Nadu state from Kerala.
- 1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of its factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
- 2012 – A fuel tank truck crashes and explodes in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh killing 26 people and injuring 135.
- 2013 – A gunman opens fire at Los Angeles International Airport, killing a US Transportation Security Administration employee, and wounding seven other people.
- 2024 – A concrete canopy collapses at the Novi Sad railway station, killing 14 people and injuring 3.
BIRTHS:
- 1878 – Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
- 1889 – Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982)
- 1903 – Edward Greeves, Jr., Australian footballer (d. 1963)
- 1936 – Eddie Colman, English footballer (d. 1958)
- 1940 – Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, Indian jurist, 35th Chief Justice of India
- 1945 – Narendra Dabholkar, Indian author and activist, founded Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (d. 2013)
- 1950 – Robert B. Laughlin, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1973 – Aishwarya Rai, Indian model and actress, Miss World 1994
- 1974 – V. V. S. Laxman, Indian cricketer
- 1978 – Manju Warrier, Indian actress and dancer
- 1987 – Ileana D’Cruz, Indian actress
- 1988 – Aditya Dev, Indian bodybuilder (d. 2012)
- 2001 – Alofiana Khan-Pereira, Australian rugby league player
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