Today in HistoryThis day in history:
- 1977 – Voyager program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
- 1995 – The Firozabad rail disaster kills 358 people in Firozabad, India.
- 1998 – U.S. embassy bombings: The United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical weapons plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
- 1308 – At the conclusion of the interrogation of the leaders of the Knights Templar, the three papal investigators, Cardinals Bérenger Frédol, Etienne de Suisy and Landolfo Brancacci, write the "Chinon Parchment", in which they affirm that the accused Templars had confessed, done penance, and were absolved of heresy.
Births:
- 1958 – David O. Russell, American director and screenwriter
- 1930 – Peter Randall, English sergeant and recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 2007)
- 1946 – Mufaddal Saifuddin, 53rd Da'i al-Mutlaq of Fatimid Caliphate
Deaths:
- 2021 – Igor Vovkovinskiy, Ukrainian-American law student and actor, American tallest person (born 1982)
- 2017 – Jerry Lewis, American actor and comedian (born 1926)
- 1942 – István Horthy, Hungarian admiral and pilot (born 1904)
Holidays:
- Independence Restoration Day (Estonia), re-declaration of the independence of Estonia from the Soviet Union in 1991.
- Meitei Language Day, also known as Manipuri Language Day, the day on which Meitei (Manipuri) was included in the scheduled languages' list and made one of the official languages of India.
- Saint Stephen's Day (Hungary)
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