EVENTS:
- 1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
- 1920 – The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
- 1924 – A mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
- 1957 – Ghana joins the United Nations.
- 1966 – Nelson’s Pillar in Dublin, Ireland, destroyed by a bomb.
- 1979 – Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
- 2004 – A new constitution is signed by Iraq’s Governing Council.
- 2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying a total of 239 people, disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
- 2016 – A total solar eclipse occurs, with totality visible from Indonesia and the North Pacific.
- 2017 – The Azure Window in Gozo, Malta, collapses after a severe storm.
- 2018 – The first Aurat March (social/political demonstration) was held being International Women’s Day in Karachi, Pakistan, since then annually held across Pakistan and feminist slogan Mera Jism Meri Marzi (My body, my choice), in demand for women’s right to bodily autonomy and against gender-based violence came into vogue in Pakistan.
- 2021 – International Women’s Day marches in Mexico become violent with 62 police officers and 19 civilians injured in Mexico City alone.
- 2021 – Twenty-eight political institutions in Myanmar establish the National Unity Consultative Council, a historic alliance of ethnic armed organizations and democratically elected leaders in response to the 2021 Myanmar coup d’état.
BIRTHS:
- 1822 – Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Polish inventor and businessman, invented the Kerosene lamp (d. 1882)
- 1879 – Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
- 1886 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
- 1924 – Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
- 1938 – Pete Dawkins, American football player, colonel, and politician
- 1951 – Phil Edmonds, Zambian-English cricketer and businessman
- 1956 – Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (d. 1989)
- 1970 – Jason Elam, American football player
- 1974 – Fardeen Khan, Indian actor
- 1980 – Stephen Milne, Australian footballer
- 1984 – Ross Taylor, New Zealand cricketer
- 1994 – Dylan Tombides, Australian footballer (d. 2014)
- 1996 – Kyle Allen, American football player
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