EVENTS:
- 1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.
- 1870 – The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
- 1879 – The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
- 1889 – The children’s charity National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is launched in London.
- 1929 – Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton; he is the only player in history to have reached that plateau.
- 1963 – Kuwait joins the United Nations.
- 1973 – Skylab, the United States’ first space station, is launched.
- 2012 – Agni Air Flight CHT crashed near Jomsom Airport in Jomsom, Nepal, after a failed go-around, killing 15 people.
- 2013 – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declares a state of emergency in the northeast states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa due to the terrorist activities of Boko Haram.
- 2021 – China successfully lands Zhurong, the country’s first Mars rover.
- 2022 – Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.
BIRTHS:
- 1814 – Charles Beyer, German-English engineer, co-founded the Beyer, Peacock and Company (d. 1876)
- 1923 – Mrinal Sen, Indian director, screenwriter, and producer
- 1948 – Bob Woolmer, Indian-English cricketer and coach (d. 2007)
- 1959 – John Holt, American football player (d. 2013)
- 1981 – Pranav Mistry, Indian computer scientist
- 1983 – Frank Gore, American football player
- 1984 – Zarine Khan, Indian model and actress
- 1984 – Mark Zuckerberg, American computer programmer and businessman, co-founder of Facebook
- 1998 – Taruni Sachdev, Indian actress (d. 2012)
- 2001 – Jack Hughes, American hockey player
- 2002 – Zach Edey, Canadian basketball player
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- National Unification Day (Liberia)
- Hastings Banda’s Birthday (Malawi)
- Flag Day (Paraguay)
