EVENTS:
- 1653 – New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated.
- 1876 – The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
- 1913 – Grand Central Terminal is opened in New York City.
- 1922 – Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
- 1934 – The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
- 1935 – Leonarde Keeler tests the first polygraph machine.
- 1966 – Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
- 2000 – First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
- 2007 – The worst flooding in Indonesia in 300 years begins.
- 2012 – The ferry MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea near the Finschhafen District, with an estimated 300 people missing.
- 2021 – The Burmese military establishes the State Administration Council, the military junta, after deposing the democratically elected government in the 2021 Myanmar coup d’état.
BIRTHS:
- 1895 – George Halas, American football player and coach (d. 1983)
- 1915 – Khushwant Singh, Indian journalist and author (d. 2014)
- 1939 – Mary-Dell Chilton, American chemist and inventor and one of the founders of modern plant biotechnology
- 1940 – Wayne Fontes, American football player and coach
- 1965 – Carl Airey, English footballer
- 1975 – Donald Driver, American football player
- 1987 – Javon Ringer, American football player
- 1987 – Jill Scott, English footballer
- 1991 – Nathan Delfouneso, English footballer
- 1993 – Ravel Morrison, English footballer
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Constitution Day (Philippines)
- Day of Youth (Azerbaijan)
- Inventor’s Day (Thailand)
- World Wetlands Day (International)
