EVENTS:
- 1858 – Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin’s own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.
- 1908 – The University of the Philippines is established.
- 1928 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
- 1946 – Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.
- 1953 – The Egyptian Revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
- 2006 – The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.
- 2009 – The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
- 2018 – An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 strikes northern Osaka.
- 2023 – Titan, a submersible operated by OceanGate Expeditions, imploded while attempting to view the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five people on board including the co-founder and CEO of the company, Stockton Rush in the North Atlantic Ocean.
BIRTHS:
- 1845 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1922)
- 1857 – Henry Clay Folger, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Folger Shakespeare Library (d. 1930)
- 1918 – Jerome Karle, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
- 1918 – Franco Modigliani, Italian-American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
- 1931 – K. S. Sudarshan, Indian nationalist (d. 2012)
- 1932 – Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1937 – Wray Carlton, American football player
- 1938 – Kevin Murray, Australian footballer and coach
- 1961 – Angela Johnson, American author and poet
- 1964 – Uday Hussein, Iraqi son of Saddam Hussein (d. 2003)
- 1981 – Marco Streller, Swiss footballer
