EVENTS:
- 1919 – The International Labour Organization is founded.
- 1921 – Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
- 1955 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
- 1970 – Apollo 13 is launched.
- 1972 – First edition of the BBC comedy panel game I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue is broadcast, one of the longest-running British radio shows in history.
- 1976 – The Apple I is created.
- 1977 – London Transport‘s Silver Jubilee buses are launched.
- 1989 – Ron Hextall becomes the first goaltender in NHL history to score a goal in the playoffs.
- 2006 – Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
- 2012 – An 8.2 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia, off northern Sumatra at a depth of 16.4 km. A tsunami hits the island of Nias at Indonesia.
- 2018 – An Ilyushin Il-76 which was owned and operated by the Algerian Air Force crashes near Boufarik, Algeria, killing 257.
- 2021 – Twenty year old Daunte Wright is shot and killed in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota by officer Kimberly Potter, sparking protests in the city, when the officer allegedly mistakes her own gun for her taser.
- 2023 – During the Pazigyi massacre, an airstrike conducted by the Myanmar Air Force kills at least 100 villagers in Pazigyi, Sagaing Region.
BIRTHS:
- 1869 – Kasturba Gandhi, Indian wife of Mahatma Gandhi (d. 1944)
- 1887 – Jamini Roy, Indian painter (d. 1972)
- 1904 – Kundan Lal Saigal, Indian singer and actor (d. 1947)
- 1952 – Indira Samarasekera, Sri Lankan engineer and academic
- 1963 – Billy Bowden, New Zealand cricketer and umpire
- 1982 – Ian Bell, English cricketer
- 1990 – Thulani Serero, South African footballer
- 1996 – Dele Alli, English footballer
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Juan Santamaría Day, anniversary of his death in the Second Battle of Rivas. (Costa Rica)
