EVENTS:
- 1530 – The St. Felix’s Flood destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands.
- 1945 – Colombia joins the United Nations.
- 1996 – Pakistani President Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly of Pakistan.
- 2006 – Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi’a Muslims in 1982.
- 2007 – Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.
- 2013 – India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.
- 2015 – An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais flooding a valley, causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and causing up to 9 deaths and 19 missing.
- 2017 – Devin Patrick Kelley kills 26 and injured 20 in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
- 2021 – The Astroworld Festival crowd crush results in 10 deaths and 25 people being hospitalized.
- 2024 – Donald Trump becomes the first president of the United States to be elected to a non-consecutive second term in 132 years, since Grover Cleveland won the 1892 election.
BIRTHS:
- 1854 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
- 1870 – Chittaranjan Das, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1925)
- 1905 – Sajjad Zaheer, Indian author and poet (d. 1973)
- 1917 – Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian politician, 4th Chief Minister of Haryana (d. 2007)
- 1920 – Douglass North, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1952 – Vandana Shiva, Indian philosopher and author
- 1955 – Karan Thapar, Indian journalist and author
- 1981 – Paul Chapman, Australian footballer
- 1988 – Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer
- 1992 – Marco Verratti, Italian footballer
- 2002 – Matty Beniers, American ice hockey player
