Social Media Day International Asteroid Day International Sailor Moon Day International Day of Parliamentarism 1905 – Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik. 1937 – The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London. 1956 – A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both airliners. 1966 – The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded. 1968 – Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God 1971 – The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve. 1973 – Concorde 001 intercepts the path of a total solar eclipse and follows the moon's shadow, experiencing the longest total eclipse observation 1990 – East and West Germany merge their economies. 1994 – During a test flight of an Airbus A330-300 at Toulouse–Blagnac Airport, the aircraft crashes killing all seven people on board 2009 – Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310-300, crashes into the Indian Ocean near Comoros, killing 152 of the 153 people on board. A 14-year-old girl named Bahia Bakari survives the crash. 2019 – Donald Trump becomes the first sitting US President to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) 1943 – Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Indian director and screenwriter 1966 – Mike Tyson, American boxer and actor 1969 – Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lankan cricketer and politician 1985 – Michael Phelps, American swimmer 1917 – Dadabhai Naoroji, Parsi intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political and social leader (born 1825) 2007 – Sahib Singh Verma, Indian librarian and politician, 4th Chief Minister of Delhi (born 1943) 2021 – Raj Kaushal, Indian Film Director and Producer (born 1971)
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