Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash lands in San Francisco International Airport:
The crash, which killed three people and injured at least 190 others, was the first fatal incident involving a Boeing 777 since it came on the market in 1995.
Nathula Pass, a trading post between India and China opens for business:
The trading post had been closed since the Sino-Indian war of 1962.
Comoros becomes independent:
The Comoros Islands gained independence after about 137 years of French rule.
Malawi gains its independence from Britain:
After dissolution of the federation and independence, Nyasaland changed its name to Malawi.
- 1946 George W. Bush
43rd President of the United States
- 1935 14th Dalai Lama
Tibetan spiritual leader
- 1921 Nancy Reagan
40th First Lady of the United States
- 1907 Frida Kahlo
Mexican painter
- 1971 Louis Armstrong
American trumpeter, singer
- 1962 William Faulkner
American author, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1893 Guy de Maupassant
French writer
- 1835 John Marshall
American jurist, 4th Chief Justice of the United States
