EVENTS:
- 1816 – Warsaw University is established.
- 1881 – A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
- 1946 – Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
- 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the “Ocean of Storms”) and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
- 1969 – Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
- 1977 – TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 131.
- 1999 – Shenzhou 1: The People’s Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
- 2010 – The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand; 29 people are killed in the nation’s worst mining disaster since 1914.
- 2013 – A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures 160 others.
- 2016 – Pope Francis created 17 new members of the College of Cardinals at a consistory in Vatican City.
- 2022 – A gunman kills five and injures 17 at Club Q, a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- 2023 – The 2023 Cricket World Cup final takes place at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, India, played between host nation India and Australia.
BIRTHS:
- 1828 – Rani Lakshmibai, Indian queen (d. 1858)
- 1887 – James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
- 1892 – Thomas Clay, English footballer and coach (d. 1949)
- 1912 – George Emil Palade, Romanian-American biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
- 1915 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
- 1917 – Indira Gandhi, Indian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
- 1922 – Salil Chowdhury, Indian director, playwright, and composer (d. 1995)
- 1928 – Dara Singh, Indian wrestler, actor, and politician (d. 2012)
- 1949 – Ahmad Rashād, American football player and sportscaster
- 1951 – Zeenat Aman, Indian model and actress
- 1961 – Jim L. Mora, American football player and coach
- 1964 – Peter Rohde, Australian footballer and coach
- 1974 – Arun Vijay, Indian actor and singer
- 1975 – Sushmita Sen, Indian model and actress, Miss Universe 1994
- 1989 – John McCarthy, Australian footballer (d. 2012)
- 1990 – Marquise Goodwin, American football player
- 1992 – Cameron Bancroft, Australian cricketer
- 1996 – Fred Warner, American football player
