EVENTS:
- 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the “telephone“.
- 1900 – The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
- 1957 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 124 is adopted.
- 1965 – Bloody Sunday: a group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
- 2006 – The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
- 2009 – The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched.
- 2014 – The opening ceremony for the 2014 Winter Paralympics take place in Sochi, Russia.
- 2021 – At least 108 die and 615 are injured in the 2021 Bata explosions in Bata, Equatorial Guinea.
- 2024 – Sweden officially joins NATO, becoming its 32nd member.
- 2024– Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie Rust, the first time someone has been found guilty for causing a death on a movie set.
BIRTHS:
- 1857 – Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
- 1924 – Bill Boedeker, American football player (d. 2014)
- 1938 – David Baltimore, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1949 – Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician, Indian Minister of Health and Family Welfare
- 1950 – Billy Joe DuPree, American football player
- 1950 – Franco Harris, American football player and businessman
- 1955 – Anupam Kher, Indian actor, singer, director, and producer
- 1955 – Tommy Kramer, American football player
- 1958 – Merv Neagle, Australian footballer and coach (d. 2012)
- 1965 – Steve Beuerlein, American football player and sportscaster
- 1988 – Larry Asante, American football player
- 1995 – Jerome Binnom-Williams, English footballer
- 2007 – Kiyan Anthony, American basketball player
