2009 – Two satellites collide in space
Both the U.S. satellite “Iridium 33” and the Russian “Kosmos 2251” were destroyed in the accident.
1996 – Deep Blue becomes the first computer to win a chess game against a reigning world champion
Despite his defeat in the first gameRussian world champion Garry Kasparov proceeded to win the match by 4-2 games.
1964 – Bob Dylan's album “The Times They Are A-Changin'” is released
The title track is one of Dylan's best-known songs.
1964 – An aircraft carrier collides with a destroyer in Australiakilling 82
Destroyer HMAS Voyager sailed under aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourn's bowwas cut in half and sank.
1962 – Francis Gary Powersa U.S. spy captured by the Soviet Unionis released
Powers was exchanged for captured Soviet spyRudolf Ivanovich Abel.
1929 – Jerry Goldsmith
American composerconductor
1898 – Bertolt Brecht
German author
1894 – Harold Macmillan
English politicianPrime Minister of the United Kingdom
1890 – Boris Pasternak
Russian authorpoetNobel Prize laureate
1744 – William Cornwallis
English Admiral
2005 – Arthur Miller
American playwright
1932 – Edgar Wallace
English journalistauthorplaywright
1923 – Wilhelm Röntgen
German physicistNobel Prize laureate
1837 – Alexander Pushkin
Russian authorpoet
1755 – Montesquieu
French philosopher