EVENTS:
- 1863 – Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, the first book in the Galician language.
- 1865 – The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
- 1902 – Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
- 1974 – Police in Los Angeles, California, raid the Symbionese Liberation Army’s headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
- 1980 – General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea seizes control of the government and declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.
- 1990 – The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.
- 2006 – The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
- 2014 – A plane crash in northern Laos kills 17 people.
- 2015 – At least 9 people are killed and 18 injured, some by law enforcement and others in gunfire exchanges, in a shootout between rival biker gangs in Waco, Texas.
- 2018 – The United States Senate confirmed Gina Cheri Haspel to lead the Central Intelligence Agency becoming the first woman to hold the post on a full time basis.
BIRTHS:
- 1749 – Edward Jenner, English physician and microbiologist (d. 1823)
- 1868 – Horace Elgin Dodge, American businessman, co-founded Dodge (d. 1920)
- 1888 – Tich Freeman, English cricketer (d. 1965)
- 1897 – Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
- 1920 – Harry Männil, Estonian-Venezuelan businessman, co-founded ACO Group (d. 2010)
- 1934 – Ronald Wayne, American computer scientist and author, co-founded Apple Inc.
- 1945 – B. S. Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer
- 1979 – Wayne Thomas, English footballer
- 1985 – Matt Ryan, American football player
- 1986 – Jodie Taylor, English footballer
- 1991 – Johanna Konta, Australian-English tennis player
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Constitution Day (Nauru)
- Constitution Day (Norway)
- Liberation Day (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- National Famine Memorial Day (Ireland)
- Navy Day (Argentina)
- World Information Society Day (International)
