EVENTS:
- 1878 – The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
- 1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
- 1896 – A. S. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.
- 1998 – A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
- 1998 – First Computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation, performed at the University of Regensburg, Germany
- 1999 – Mont Blanc Tunnel fire kills 39 people.
- 2014 – A train overruns the buffers at Chicago O’Hare Airport station, injuring 32 people.
- 2015 – Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.
- 2018 – Syrian civil war: The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and Syrian National Army (SNA) take full control of Afrin District, marking the end of the Afrin offensive.
- 2018 – Students across the United States stage the March for Our Lives demanding gun control in response to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.
- 2019 – Jakarta MRT, a rapid transit system in Jakarta, began operation.
BIRTHS:
- 1775 – Muthuswami Dikshitar, Indian poet and composer (d. 1835)
- 1884 – Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
- 1917 – John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
- 1922 – T. M. Soundararajan, Indian singer and actor (d. 2013)
- 1926 – Dario Fo, Italian playwright, actor, director, and composer Nobel Prize laureate
- 1947 – Mick Jones, English footballer and coach
- 1950 – Gary Wichard, American football player and agent (d. 2011)
- 1978 – Michael Braun, Australian footballer and coach
- 1984 – Adrian D’Souza, Indian field hockey player
- 1987 – Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladeshi cricketer
- 1991 – Nick Browne, English cricketer
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