• 1881 – Harry Warner's Birth Day, Polish-American businessman, co-founded Warner Bros (d. 1958)

• 1901 – Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
Guglielmo Marconi
• 1911 – Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.

• 1927 – Robert Noyce's Birth Day, American inventor and businessman, co-founded the Intel Corporation (d. 1990)

• 1950 – Rajinikanth's Birth Day, Indian actor.
RajniKanth
• 1964 – Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta becomes the first President of the Republic of Kenya.

• 2012 – North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2, using an Unha-3 carrier rocket.