EVENTS:
- 1386 – The Universität Heidelberg held its first lecture, making it the oldest German university.
- 1512 – Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
- 1904 – Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O’Reilley.
- 1933 – Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
- 1943 – Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
- 1950 – Iran becomes the first country to accept technical assistance from the United States under the Point Four Program.
- 2005 – Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
- 2012 – Big Tex, a 52-foot statue and cultural icon in Dallas is destroyed by fire during the final weekend of the 2012 State Fair of Texas.
- 2013 – At least 105 people were injured in a train crash at the Once railway station in Buenos Aires.
- 2019 – Members of Parliament met at the House of Lords to discuss the United Kingdom’s Brexit deal, this was the first Saturday sitting in Parliament since 3 April 1982 during the Falklands War.
BIRTHS:
- 1873 – Bart King, American cricketer (d. 1965)
- 1899 – Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
- 1900 – Bill Ponsford, Australian cricketer and baseball player (d. 1991)
- 1916 – Jean Dausset, French-Spanish immunologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
- 1920 – Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian philosopher and educator (d. 2003)
- 1949 – Lynn Dickey, American football player and radio host
- 1954 – Sam Allardyce, English footballer and manager
- 1961 – Sunny Deol, Indian actor and producer
- 1973 – Marc Beckers, German footballer
- 1990 – Tom Kilbey, English footballer
- 1995 – Sammis Reyes, Chilean-American football and basketball player
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Armilustrium (Roman Empire)
- Constitution Day, in honor of the country’s independence (self-governing in free association with New Zealand) in 1974. (Niue)
- Mother Teresa Day (Albania)
