EVENTS:
- 1635 – The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston.
- 1914 – First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park in Chicago.
- 1929 – Turkey becomes the first country to celebrate Children’s Day as a national holiday.
- 1967 – Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a manned spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.
- 1985 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
- 1990 – Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1993 – Sri Lankan politician Lalith Athulathmudali is assassinated while addressing a gathering, approximately four weeks ahead of the Provincial Council elections for the Western Province.
- 1997 – Omaria massacre in Algeria: Forty-two villagers are killed.
- 2005 – First YouTube video uploaded, titled “Me at the zoo“.
- 2013 – At least 28 are dead and more than 70 are injured as violence breaks out in Hawija, Iraq.
- 2018 – A vehicle-ramming attack kills 10 people and injures 15 in Toronto. A 25-year-old suspect, Alek Minassian is arrested.
- 2019 – A mudslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, 54 miners are missing and feared dead.
- 2024 – The 2024 Lumut mid-air collision in Malaysia kills 10 people while rehearsing for the 90th anniversary of the Royal Malaysian Navy.
BIRTHS:
- 1858 – Max Planck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
- 1902 – Halldór Laxness, Icelandic author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
- 1938 – S. Janaki, Indian singer
- 1977 – Lee Young-pyo, South Korean footballer
- 1979 – Samppa Lajunen, Finnish skier
- 1981 – Chris Sharma, American rock climber
- 1986 – Sven Kramer, Dutch speed skater
- 1991 – Nathan Baker, English footballer
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