EVENTS:
- 1795 – The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
- 1812 – The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.
- 1863 – HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
- 1907 – The Mud March is the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
- 1974 – Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1979 – Pluto moves inside Neptune‘s orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
- 1995 – Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
- 1997 – NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X.
- 2013 – At least 51 people are killed in a crash involving a bus and truck in Zambia.
- 2014 – The opening ceremony for the 2014 Winter Olympics is held in the Russian city of Sochi.
- 2014 – Over 350 people were injured in the anti-government unrest in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 2016 – North Korea launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 into outer space.
- 2021 – The 2021 Uttarakhand flood begins.
- 2024 – Pakistan election offices hit by twin bombings, killing at least 24 people a day before general elections.
BIRTHS:
- 1873 – Thomas Andrews, Irish shipbuilder and businessman, designed the RMS Titanic (d. 1912)
- 1885 – Sinclair Lewis, American author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1951)
- 1905 – Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983)
- 1908 – Manmath Nath Gupta, Indian journalist and author (d. 2000)
- 1955 – Rolf Benirschke, American football player and game show host
- 1959 – Mick McCarthy, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster
- 1964 – Ashok Banker, Indian journalist, author, and screenwriter
- 1979 – Tawakkol Karman, Yemeni journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1981 – Darcy Dolce Neto, Brazilian footballer
- 1988 – Matthew Stafford, American football player
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Independence Day (Grenada), celebrates the independence of Grenada from the United Kingdom in 1974.
