EVENTS:
- 1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.
- 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
- 1933 – First flight over Mount Everest, a British expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.
- 1968 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech.
- 1973 – Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, though it took ten years for the DynaTAC 8000X to become the first such phone to be commercially released.
- 1981 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
- 2000 – United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping “an oppressive thumb” on its competitors.
- 2007 – Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.
- 2008 – ATA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations.
- 2010 – Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.
- 2013 – More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 2016 – The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.
- 2017 – A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people.
- 2018 – YouTube headquarters shooting.
BIRTHS:
- 1781 – Swaminarayan, Indian religious leader (d. 1830)
- 1876 – Tomáš Baťa, Czech businessman, founded Bata Shoes (d. 1932)
- 1898 – Henry Luce, American publisher, co-founded Time Magazine (d. 1967)
- 1929 – Fazlur Khan, Bangladeshi engineer and architect, co-designed the Willis Tower and John Hancock Center (d. 1982)
- 1954 – K. Krishnasamy, Indian physician and politician
- 1955 – Hariharan, Indian singer (Colonial Cousins)
- 1962 – Jaya Prada, Indian actress and politician
- 1965 – Nazia Hassan, Pakistani singer (d. 2000)
- 1973 – Prabhu Deva, Indian actor, director, and choreographer
- 1989 – Thisara Perera, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1990 – Sotiris Ninis, Greek footballer
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