EVENTS:
- 1758 – The English transport ship Duke William sinks in the North Atlantic, killing over 360 people.
- 1962 – NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
- 1974 – Malta becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1988 – PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, after United States authorities refused to grant him a visa to visit UN headquarters in New York.
- 2001 – Sansad Bhavan, the building housing the Indian Parliament, is attacked by terrorists. Twelve people are killed, including the terrorists.
- 2003 – Iraq War: Operation Red Dawn – Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit.
- 2006 – Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is adopted.
- 2014 – Landslides caused by heavy rain in Java, Indonesia, kill at least 56 people.
BIRTHS:
- 1887 – Alvin C. York, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964)
- 1911 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
- 1923 – Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1935 – Kenneth Hall, American football player
- 1940 – Sanjaya Lall, Indian economist and academic (d. 2005)
- 1952 – Junkyard Dog, American football player and wrestler (d. 1998)
- 1954 – Harsh Vardhan, Indian otolaryngologist and politician, Indian Minister of Science and Technology
- 1960 – Daggubati Venkatesh, Indian actor
- 1961 – Gary Zimmerman, American football player
- 1962 – Rex Ryan, American football player and coach
- 1962 – Rob Ryan, American football player and coach
- 1980 – Ryan France, English footballer
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Acadian Remembrance Day (Acadians)
- Republic Day (Malta)
- National Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Lucia from United Kingdom in 1979.
