EVENTS:
- 1739 – Nader Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
- 1872 – Illinois becomes the first state to require gender equality in employment
- 1894 – The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
- 1912– The State of Bihar, India was formed out of the State of Bengal.
- 1945 – The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
- 1993 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
- 1997 – Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest women’s World Figure Skating Champion.
- 2013 – At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.
- 2014 – Forty-three people are killed in a mudslide near Oso, Washington.
- 2014 – At least 251 people die when a boat capsizes in Lake Albert.
- 2016 – Three suicide bombers kill 35 people and injure 316 in the 2016 Brussels bombings at the airport and at the Maelbeek/Maalbeek metro station.
- 2017 – A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured.
- 2019 – Robert S. Mueller III delivers his report on the Russian government’s influence on the election of Donald Trump in the 2016 United States presidential election.
- 2019 – Two buses crashed in Kitampo, a town north of Ghana‘s capital Accra, killing at least 50 people.
- 2020 – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces the country’s largest ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19.
- 2020 – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announces a national lockdown and the country’s first ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19.
- 2021 – Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado.
- 2024 – At least 145 people are killed and 551 injured in a bombing and mass shooting at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Russia.
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