Events

• 1616 - The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
• 1835 - The HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands.
• 1981 - The United States Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court.
• 1997 - Google was founded.

Births

• 973 - Al-Biruni, mathematician (d. 1048)
• 1890 - Agatha Christie, English writer (d. 1976)
• 1929 - Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

• 1750 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1690)
• 2007 - Brett Somers, Canadian-born American actress and Match Game panelist (b. 1924)

Holidays and observances

• In ancient Greece, the second day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the priests of Demeter declared the public start of the rites.