EVENTS:
- 1910 – The Westmoreland County coal strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
- 1957 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.
- 1961 – Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
- 1967 – Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15, crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26.
- 1976 – Forty-two people died in the 1976 Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
- 2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.
- 2012 – At least 130 rockets are fired into Israel from Gaza, and 12 Palestinians militants are killed as part of the latest escalation in violence in the region.
- 2015 – Two helicopters collided near Villa Castelli, Argentina killing 10 people.
- 2020 – Giuseppe Conte, Prime Minister of Italy, announces in a televised address and signs the decree imposing the first nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in the world.
- 2023 – A shooting in the Alsterdorf quarter of Hamburg, Germany, kills eight people and injures another eight.
BIRTHS:
- 1887 – Phil Mead, English cricketer and footballer (d. 1958)
- 1923 – Walter Kohn, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1951 – Zakir Hussain, Indian tabla player, composer, and actor
- 1956 – Mark Dantonio, American football player and coach
- 1956 – Shashi Tharoor, Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs
- 1961 – Mike Leach, American football player and coach
- 1965 – Brian Bosworth, American football player and actor
- 1970 – Naveen Jindal, Indian businessman and politician
- 1974 – Mark Harrity, Australian cricketer
- 1981 – Antonio Bryant, American football player
- 2002 – Usman Garuba, Spanish basketball player
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