EVENTS:
- 1875 – The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in the Montreal Gazette.
- 1885 – The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
- 1923 – TIME magazine is published for the first time.
- 1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
- 1939 – In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic rule in British India.
- 1953 – A Canadian Pacific Air Lines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
- 1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
- 1985 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
- 2012 – Two trains crash in the small Polish town of Szczekociny near Zawiercie, with 16 people killed and up to 58 people injured.
- 2013 – A bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 45 people and injured 180 others in a predominately Shia Muslim area.
- 2014 – The trial of Oscar Pistorius begins in Pretoria.
- 2017 – Nintendo releases the hybrid Nintendo Switch video game console worldwide to critical acclaim, later becoming the fastest selling console in the United States.
BIRTHS:
- 1839 – Jamsetji Tata, Indian businessman, founded Tata Group (d. 1904)
- 1847 – Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-American engineer and academic, invented the telephone (d. 1922)
- 1895 – Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
- 1918 – Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
- 1962 – Herschel Walker, American football player and mixed martial artist
- 1967 – Shankar Mahadevan, Indian singer-songwriter (Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy)
- 1970 – Inzamam-ul-Haq, Pakistani cricketer and coach
- 1972 – Darren Anderton, English footballer and sportscaster
- 1976 – Fraser Gehrig, Australian footballer
- 1983 – Ashley Hansen, Australian footballer
- 1988 – Max Waller, English cricketer
