Assassination Attempt on Malala Yousafzai
The Pakistani education activist was shot at and injured while going back home from school. Malala survived the attack and has since gone on to become one of the leading voices for the education of girls in the world.
Phantom of Opera makes its theatrical debut
The musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe opened at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London’s West End. The musical is the longest running show on Broadway.
Khmer Republic established
The Khmer Republic was formally established under the leadership of General Lon Nol and Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak.
Ugandan independence
Uganda gained independence from British rule. The country had become a British protectorate in 1894, 32 years after the first European, British John Hanning Speke set foot in the country.
- 1970 Annika Sörenstam Swedish golfer
- 1969 PJ HarveyEnglish singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer
- 1966 David CameronEnglish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1940 John Lennon English singer-songwriter, musician, producer
- 1888 Nikolai Bukharin Russian politician
- 2004 Jacques Derrida French philosopher
- 1978 Jacques BrelBelgian singer-songwriter, actor
- 1974 Oskar Schindler Czech/German businessman
- 1967 Che Guevara Argentine/Cuban physician, author, intellectual, diplomat, theorist
- 1958 Pope Pius XII
