EVENTS:
- 1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.
- 1789 – Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
- 1893 – Parliament of the World’s Religions opens in Chicago, where Swami Vivekananda delivers his speech on fanaticism, tolerance and the truth inherent in all religions.
- 1939 – World War II: Canada declares war on Germany, the country’s first independent declaration of war.
- 1940 – George Stibitz performs the first remote operation of a computer.
- 1968 – The International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) was found.
- 1997 – NASA‘s Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
- 1998 – Opening ceremony for the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia is the first Asian country to host the games.
- 2007 – Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.
- 2013 – A 400 km long human chain called Catalan Way is organized by the Assemblea Nacional Catalana for the independence of Catalonia.
- 2015 – A crane collapses onto the Masjid al-Haram mosque in Saudi Arabia killing 111 people and injuring 394 others.
- 2023 – The Libyan city of Derna experiences catastrophic floods after Storm Daniel causes two dams to collapse, killing over 11,300 people.
- 2024 – Hurricane Francine impacts the Gulf of Mexico, as a Category 2 hurricane.
BIRTHS:
- 1884 – Sudhamoy Pramanick, Indian politician (d. 1974)
- 1924 – Tom Landry, American football player and coach (d. 2000)
- 1931 – John Reger, American football player (d. 2013)
- 1939 – Charles Geschke, American businessman, co-founded Adobe Systems.
- 1944 – Everaldo, Brazilian footballer (d. 1974)
- 1946 – Jim Shoulder, English footballer and manager
- 1950 – Bruce Doull, Australian footballer
- 1960 – Hiroshi Amano, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1975 – Pierre Issa, South African footballer
- 1986 – Dwayne Jarrett, American football player
- 1988 – Lee Yong-dae, South Korean badminton player
- 1990 – Jo Inge Berget, Norwegian footballer
- 1997 – Harmony Tan, French tennis player
- 2001 – Nicholas Robertson, American ice hockey player
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Death Anniversary of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, a former holiday. (Pakistan)
- National Day of Catalonia (Catalonia)
- Patriot Day (United States)
- Teachers’ Day (Argentina)
- Remember Freedom Day
- National Hot Cross Bun Day (United States)
