events

• 1816: indiana becomes the 19th u.s. state
• 1901: guglielmo marconi transmits the first transatlantic radio signal from cornwall to newfoundland
• 1913: the mona lisa is recovered from vincenzo peruggia after stealing it more than two years earlier from the louvre
• 1941: world war ii: germany and italy declare war on the united states; poland declares war on japan
• 1946: unicef (united nations international children's emergency fund) is established
• 1972: apollo 17 becomes the sixth and final apollo mission to land on the moon
• 1990: interstate 75 fog disaster in calhoun, tennessee
• 1994: airplane crash: philippine airlines flight 434
• 1998: airplane crash: thai airways international flight 261
• 1999: airplane crash: sata air açores flight 530
• 2001: china joins the world trade organization (wto)
• 2008: bernie madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud
• 2009: angry birds is released
• 2017: new york city subway bombing
• 2020: the fda issues an emergency use authorization on the pfizer-biontech covid-19 vaccine, making it the first to be approved by the agency

births

• 1475: pope leo x
• 1725: george mason - i attended george mason university
• 1830: kamehameha v of hawaii
• 1882: fiorello h. la guardia - 99th mayor of new york city
• 1889: walter knott - founder of knott's berry farm
• 1926: big mama thornton
• 1931: rita moreno
• 1943: john kerry
• 1954: jermaine jackson
• 1958: nikki sixx
• 1966: gary dourdan
• 1967: mo'nique
• 1973: mos def

deaths

• 1864: sam cooke
• 1872: kamehameha v of hawaii
• 1880: oliver winchester - founded the winchester repeating arms company
• 1971: maurice mcdonald - co-founder of mcdonald's
• 2008: bettie page
• 2021: anne rice
• 2023: andre braugher
• 384: pope damascus i

holidays

• argentina: national tango day
• burkina faso: republic day
• canada: anniversary of the statue of westminster
• christian feast days: cian; daniel the stylite; marí de las maravillas de jesús; pope damascus i; sabinus of piacenza; victoricus, fiscian, and gentian
• iraqi kurdistan: establishment of kurdish women's union
• philippines, pampanga province: pampanga day
• united states: indiana day
• united states: national app day
• united states: national noodle ring day
• worldwide: international mountain day