International Day of Older Persons

The National Voluntary Blood Donation

• 1791 – First session of the French Legislative Assembly.

• 1795 – Belgium is conquered by France.

• 1811 – The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans.

• 1880 – First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.

• 1887 – Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.

• 1908 – Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.

• 1928 – The Soviet Union introduces its First five-year plan.

• 1949 – The People's Republic of China is established and declared by Mao Zedong.

• 1958 – NASA is created to replace NACA.

• 1960 – Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.

• 1969 – Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.

• 1979 – Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.

• 1982 – Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).

• 1847 –
Birth Day Of Annie Besant, English-Indian activist and author (Death On 1933)

• 1896 – Birth Day Of Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (Death On 1951)

• 1904 – Birth Day Of A. K. Gopalan, Indian educator and politician (Death On 1977)