EVENTS:
- 1890 – Formal and official founding of the Uddevalla Suffrage Association.
- 1909 – Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.
- 1920 – Adam Martin Wyant became the first former professional American football player to be elected to the United States Congress.
- 1936 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
- 1936 – The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world’s first regular, “high-definition” (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
- 1973 – The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India form a ‘United Front’ in the state of Tripura.
- 2014 – A suicide attack killed 60 at Wagah.
- 2016 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending the longest Major League Baseball championship drought at 108 years.
- 2020 – In Vienna‘s Innere Stadt district, an ISIL sympathizer shoots and kills four people and injures 23 more, before being shot and killed by the police.
- 2022 – A peace agreement is signed between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, ending the Tigray War.
BIRTHS:
- 1833 – Mahendralal Sarkar, Indian physician and academic (d. 1904)
- 1877 – Aga Khan III, Indian 48th Shia Imam (d. 1957)
- 1877 – Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (d. 1915)
- 1908 – Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983)
- 1911 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
- 1929 – Richard E. Taylor, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1929 – Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, Pakistani judge and politician, 9th President of Pakistan
- 1941 – Arun Shourie, Indian journalist, economist, and politician
- 1961 – Jeff Tedford, American football player and coach
- 1962 – Derek Mountfield, English footballer and manager
- 1965 – Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor, singer, and producer
- 1981 – Roddy White, American football player
- 1986 – Diana Penty, Indian model and actress
- 1990 – Christopher Dibon, Austrian footballer
- 1994 – Shaquile Coulthirst, English footballer
- 1998 – Jordan Love, American football player
- 2001 – Moisés Caicedo, Ecuadorian footballer
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Indian Arrival Day (Mauritius)
- Karatsu Kunchi (Karatsu, Saga)
- Statehood Day (North Dakota and South Dakota)
- Coronation of Haile Selassie (Rastafari movement)
