EVENTS:
- 1874 – Silver Dollar becomes legal US tender.
- 1899 – Iceland‘s first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
- 1930 – The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA.
- 1961 – Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
- 1962 – Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
- 1978 – The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago).
- 1998 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground.
- 2005 – The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
- 2005 – The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004–2005 regular season and playoffs.
- 2013 – A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town in Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others.
- 2015 – A CSX train crashes in Mount Carbon, West Virginia, resulting in large fires.
- 2021 – Five thousand people gathered in the town of Kherrata, Bejaia Province to mark the two year anniversary of the Hirak protest movement. Demonstrations had been suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria.
BIRTHS:
- 1929 – Gerhard Hanappi, Austrian footballer and architect (d. 1980)
- 1942 – Richard Williams, American tennis player and coach
- 1954 – Michael Holding, Jamaican cricketer and sportscaster
- 1972 – Jerome Bettis, American football player and sportscaster
- 1977 – Ian Clarke, Irish-American computer scientist, founded Freenet
- 1977 – Ahman Green, American football player
- 1978 – Wasim Jaffer, Indian cricketer
- 1982 – Rickie Lambert, English footballer
- 1985 – Simon Francis, English footballer
- 1995 – Katy Dunne, English tennis player
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Day of the Shining Star (Kim Jong-il’s Birthday) (North Korea)
- Restoration of Lithuania’s Statehood Day, celebrate the independence of Lithuania from Russia and Germany in 1918 (Lithuania)
