William Cornwallis
- 632 – The final king of the Sasanian Empire of Iran, Yazdegerd III, took the throne at the age of eight.
- 1795 – French Revolutionary Wars: Off the coast of Brittany, a British Royal Navy battle squadron commanded by William Cornwallis (pictured) fended off a numerically superior French Navy fleet.
- 1911 – Computing company IBM was founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.
- 1961 – Pioneering Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected from the Soviet Union at Paris–Le Bourget Airport with the help of French police and a Parisian socialite friend.
- 2013 – A multi-day cloudburst caused severe flooding in the North Indian state of Uttarakhand, resulting in over 5,700 deaths.
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