• 1555 – Death day of Oronce Finé, French mathematician and cartographer (Birth on 1494)
• 1942 – Quit India Movement is launched in India against the
British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete
independence.
• 1946 – First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first
mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle, the heaviest mass-produced
piston-engined aircraft, with the longest wingspan of any military aircraft,
and the first bomber with intercontinental range.
• 1912 – Birth day of Prabhu Lal Bhatnagar, was an Indian mathematician known for his
contribution to the Bhatnagar–Gross–Krook operator used in Lattice Boltzmann
methods. (Death on October 5, 1976)
• 1921 – Birth day of Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian pathologist
and academic (Death on 2001)
• 1989 – Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle
Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
