EVENTS:
- 1941 – In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 1957 – A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
- 1963 – Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing more than 1,100 people.
- 1988 – A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
- 1992 – Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Suicide car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.
- 2004 – Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Niš are destroyed.
- 2011 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 1972 relating to Somalia is adopted.
- 2011 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 relating to Libyan Civil War is adopted.
- 2016 – Rojava conflict: At a conference in Rmelan, the Movement for a Democratic Society declares the establishment of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria.
BIRTHS:
- 1864 – Joseph Baptista, Indian engineer, lawyer, and politician (d. 1930)
- 1881 – Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
- 1914 – Sammy Baugh, American football player and coach (d. 2008)
- 1953 – Chuck Muncie, American football player (d. 2013)
- 1962 – Kalpana Chawla, Indian-American engineer and astronaut (d. 2003)
- 1964 – Lee Dixon, English footballer and journalist
- 1975 – Puneeth Rajkumar, Indian actor, singer, and producer
- 1988 – Fraser Forster, English footballer
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Children’s Day (Bangladesh)
- Evacuation Day (Suffolk County, Massachusetts)
