EVENTS:
- 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
- 1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
- 1960 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
- 1960 – Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
- 1980 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world’s first democratically elected female head of state.
- 1993 – The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
- 2008 – Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.
- 2014 – Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence entered into force.
- 2017 – A suicide attack on a mosque in Heart, Afghanistan kills 20 people.
- 2023 – Former US President Donald Trump is indicted for his role in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, his third indictment in 2023.
BIRTHS:
- 1861 – Sammy Jones, Australian cricketer (d. 1951)
- 1871 – John Lester, American cricketer (d. 1969)
- 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
- 1910 – Mohammad Nissar, Indian cricketer (d. 1963)
- 1931 – Trevor Goddard, South African cricketer
- 1932 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress (d. 1972)
- 1934 – John Beck, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2000)
- 1935 – Geoff Pullar, English cricketer
- 1945 – Douglas Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1952 – Yajurvindra Singh, Indian cricketer
- 1955 – Arun Lal, Indian cricketer and sportscaster
- 1978 – Andy Blignaut, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1986 – Andrew Taylor, English footballer
- 1996 – Katie Boulter, British tennis player
- 2001 – Ben Trbojevic, Australian rugby league player
- 2003 – Joseph Sua’ali’i, Australian-Samoan rugby league player
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES:
- Armed Forces Day (Lebanon)
- Armed Forces Day or Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Liberation Army (People’s Republic of China)
- Azerbaijani Language and Alphabet Day (Azerbaijan)
- National Day, celebrates the independence of Benin from France in 1960.
- National Day, commemorates Switzerland becoming a single unit in 1291.
- Statehood Day (Colorado)
- World Scout Scarf Day (International)
- Yorkshire Day (Yorkshire, England)
