EVENTS:
- 1739 – Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nader Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
- 1863 – Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
- 1918 – Estonian Declaration of Independence.
- 1920 – The Nazi Party is founded.
- 1980 – The United States Olympic hockey team completes its Miracle on Ice by defeating Finland 4–2 to win the gold medal.
- 1981 – An earthquake registering 6.7 (surface wave magnitude) hits Athens. This intensity IX (Violent) shock killed 16 people and destroyed buildings in several towns west of the city.
- 2004 – The 6.3 Mw Al Hoceima earthquake strikes northern Morocco with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 628 people are killed, 926 are injured, and up to 15,000 are displaced.
- 2016 – Tara Air Flight 193, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft, crashed with 23 fatalities in Solighopte in Myagdi District, a part of Dhaulagiri Zone, while en route from Pokhara Airport in Pokhara, Nepal, to Jomsom Airport in Jomsom.
- 2020 – Mahathir Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia following an attempt to replace the Pakatan Harapan government, which triggered the 2020-2022 Malaysian political crisis.
- 2022 – Russo-UkrainianWar :Daysafter recognising Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states, Russian president Vladimir Putin orders a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
BIRTHS:
- 1924 – Hal Herring, American football player and coach (d. 2014)
- 1931 – Brian Close, English cricketer and coach (d. 2015)
- 1938 – Phil Knight, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Nike, Inc.
- 1942 – Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Indian philosopher, theorist, and academic
- 1948 – Jayalalithaa, Indian actress and politician, 16th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
- 1951 – Derek Randall, English cricketer
- 1970 – Jeff Garcia, American football player and coach
- 1978 – Leon Constantine, English footballer
- 1981 – Mohammad Sami, Pakistani cricketer
- 1995 – Jacob Murphy, English footballer
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