EVENTS:
- 1936 – The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
- 1955 – In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
- 1966 – Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
- 1967 – Celtic F.C. from Glasgow, Scotland, becomes the first ever Northern European team to win the European Cup; with previous winners being from Spain, Italy and Portugal.
- 1979 – American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O’Hare International Airport killing all 271 on board and two people on the ground.
- 1985 – Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
- 2001 – Erik Weihenmayer, 32 years old, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
- 2013 – Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India.
- 2013 – A gas cylinder explodes on a school bus in the Pakistani city of Gujrat, killing at least 17 children and injuring 7 others.
- 2018 – The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable.[2]
- 2018 – Ireland votes to repeal the Eight Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, prohibiting abortion in all but a few cases, choosing to replace it with the Thirty-Sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.
BIRTHS:
- 1458 – Mahmud Begada Indian sultan (d. 1511)
- 1865 – John Mott, American evangelist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
- 1865 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
- 1886 – Rash Behari Bose, Indian activist (d. 1945)
- 1889 – Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American aircraft designer, founded Sikorsky Aircraft (d. 1972)
- 1899 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Indian flute player and poet (d. 1976)
- 1921 – Jack Steinberger, German-Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1933 – Ray Spencer, English footballer
- 1936 – Rusi Surti, Indian cricketer (d. 2013)
- 1972 – Karan Johar, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1983 – Kunal Khemu, Indian actor
- 1993 – James Porter, English cricketer
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