EVENTS:
- 1913 – Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
- 1928 – Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
- 1952 – Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
- 1968 – Battle of Karameh in Jordan between the Israel Defense Forces and the combined forces of the Jordanian Armed Forces and PLO.
- 1983 – The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic.
- 1986 – Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championships
- 1990 – Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
- 1999 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
- 2006 – The social media site Twitter is founded.
- 2009 – Four police officers are shot and killed and a fifth is wounded in two shootings at Oakland, California.
- 2019 – A Jiangsu Tianjiayi Chemical plant in China killing at least 47 people, injuring 640 others.
- 2022 – China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 crashes in Guangxi, China, killing 132 people.
BIRTHS:
- 1835 – Thomas Hayward, English cricketer (d. 1876)
- 1854 – Alick Bannerman, Australian cricketer and coach (d. 1924)
- 1887 – M. N. Roy, Indian philosopher and politician (d. 1954)
- 1889 – Jock Sutherland, American football player and coach (d. 1948)
- 1909 – Harry Lane, English footballer (d. 1977)
- 1916 – Bismillah Khan, Indian shehnai player (d. 2006)
- 1923 – Nirmala Srivastava, Indian religious leader, founded Sahaja Yoga (d. 2011)
- 1932 – Walter Gilbert, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1966 – Matthew Maynard, English cricketer and coach
- 1972 – Graeme Welch, English cricketer
- 1993 – Jake Bidwell, English footballer
- 2007 – Ethan Nwaneri, English footballer
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