EVENTS:
- 1883 – Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an anti-trust law.
- 1887 – The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
- 1909 – The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
- 1943 – A fire breaks out at St. Joseph’s Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, killing 36 people (35 of whom are children).
- 1947 – The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded.
- 1954 – The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
- 1955 – First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
- 1987 – Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
- 1999 – An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.
- 2010 – Unknown criminals pour more than 2.5 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro, in northern Italy, sparking an environmental disaster.
- 2012 – A series of attacks across Iraq leave at least 83 killed and more than 250 injured.
- 2017 – The Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army captures Al-Bab from ISIL.
- 2019 – Atlas Air Flight 3591, a Boeing 767 freighter, crashes into Trinity Bay near Anahuac, Texas, killing all three people on board.
- 2020 – Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old African-American citizen, is shot and murdered by three white men after visiting a house under construction while jogging at a neighborhood in Satilla Shores near Brunswick in Glynn County, Georgia.
- 2021 – Four simultaneous prison riots leave at least 62 people dead in Ecuador.
BIRTHS:
- 1924 – Allan McLeod Cormack, South-African-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
- 1937 – Tom Osborne, American football player, coach, and politician
- 1940 – Jackie Smith, American football player
- 1943 – Fred Biletnikoff, American football player and coach
- 1951 – Ed “Too Tall” Jones, American football player and boxer
- 1974 – Herschelle Gibbs, South African cricketer
- 1981 – Gareth Barry, English footballer
- 1981 – Charles Tillman, American football player
- 1986 – Jerod Mayo, American football player
- 1990 – Terry Hawkridge, English footballer
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
