EVENTS:
- 1934 – A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing 3,036 people.
- 1942 – The Boeing B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
- 1964 – Malta gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1971 – Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.
- 1981 – Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1991 – Armenia is granted independence from Soviet Union.
- 1999 – Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
- 2003 – Galileo mission is terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter’s atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.
- 2013 – Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, killing at least 67 people.
- 2015 – Adventist Health System agreed to pay $118.7 million to settle allegations of fraud. It was the largest a hospital network has ever paid.
- 2018 – LGBT rights activist Zak Kostopoulos is beaten to death on a busy street in Athens.
- 2019 – A 5.6 Mw earthquake shakes the Albanian port of Durrës. Forty-nine people are injured in the capital, Tirana.
BIRTHS:
- 1853 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926)
- 1878 – Peter McWilliam, Scottish-English footballer and manager (d. 1951)
- 1882 – Geevarghese Mar Ivanios, Indian metropolitan (d. 1953)
- 1926 – Donald A. Glaser, American physicist and neurobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
- 1930 – Bob Stokoe, English footballer and manager (d. 2004)
- 1935 – Jimmy Armfield, English footballer and manager
- 1939 – Agnivesh, Indian philosopher, academic, and politician
- 1940 – Ron Fenton, English footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2013)
- 1955 – Gulshan Grover, Indian actor and singer
- 1971 – John Crawley, English cricketer and academic
- 1972 – Jon Kitna, American football player and coach
- 1974 – Andy Todd, English footballer and manager
- 1978 – Luke Godden, Australian footballer
- 1979 – Julian Gray, English footballer
- 1980 – Kareena Kapoor Khan, Indian actress and singer
- 1981 – Rimi Sen, Indian actress
- 1982 – Rowan Vine, English footballer
- 1990 – Danny Batth, English footballer
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
