This day in history:
- 1988 – Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at Rome–Fiumicino International Airport, in Rome, Italy, killing 33 people.
- 1861 – Aboriginal Australians kill nineteen Europeans in the Cullin-la-ringo massacre.
- 1966 – The 23rd Street Fire in New York City kills 12 firefighters.
- 1989 – The 6.9 Mw Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast, killing 63.
Births:
- 1577 – Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (d. 1621)
- 1623 – Francis Turretin, Swiss-Italian minister, theologian, and academic (d. 1687)
- 1924 – Anton Geiser, Croatian SS officer (d. 2012)
Deaths:
- 1673 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician, Lord High Treasurer of England (b. 1630)
- 1996 – Chris Acland, English musician and drummer of Lush (b. 1966)
- 1887 – Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist and chemist (b. 1824)
Holidays:
- National Heroes Day (Somaliland)
- International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
- Loyalty Day (Argentina)
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