EVENTS:
- 1789 – George Washington sends proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
- 1950 – Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published.
- 1958 – Guinea declares its independence from France.
- 1970 – A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
- 1990 – Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 128.
- 1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
- 2007 – President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
- 2016 – In a protest at a religious feast, fifty-two people are killed and many others are injured in Ethiopia’s Oromia region.
- 2018 – Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is last seen entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
- 2019 – A privately-owned Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress conducting a living history exhibition flight crashes shortly after takeoff from Windsor Locks, Connecticut, killing seven.
BIRTHS:
- 1852 – William Ramsay, Scottish-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
- 1869 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian activist and philosopher (d. 1948)
- 1873 – Pelham Warner, English cricketer and manager (d. 1963)
- 1904 – Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian academic and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of India (d. 1966)
- 1907 – Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
- 1933 – John Gurdon, English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1948 – Trevor Brooking, English footballer and manager
- 1948 – Persis Khambatta, Indian model and actress, Femina Miss India 1965 (d. 1998)
- 1962 – Mark Rypien, American football player
- 1981 – Luke Wilkshire, Australian footballer
- 1990 – Dean Bouzanis, Australian footballer
- 2002 – Jacob Sartorius, American social media personality and singer
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Gandhi‘s birthday-related observances:
- Gandhi Jayanti (India)
- International Day of Non-Violence (International)
- World Day for Farmed Animals
- Independence Day (Guinea), celebrates the independence of Guinea from France in 1958
- National Grandparents Day (Italy)
