1821 – Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
1822 – Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
1825 – The first locomotive to haul a passenger train was operated by George Stephenson in England.
1833– Raja Rammohan Roy, great social reformer, lawyer and politician passed away at Stapleton Grove in England.
1908 – The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
1928– The United States recognized the Nationalist Chinese government.
1962 – The Yemen Arab Republic is established. (data by facebook/cnaonweb
1972– Shri Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, prolific author and first librarian of the University of Madras, passed away at the age of 80 at Bangalore.
1983 – Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
1988 – National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar. (data by facebook/cnaonweb
1995– 73 people died in a coal mine accident in Gaslitand in Dhanbad district, Bihar, when flood water leaked into the mine.
1996 – In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah. (data by facebook/cnaonweb
1998 – The Google internet search engine retrospectively claims this as its birthday.
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