Elizabeth II overtakes Victoria as oldest British monarch (2007), and UN adopts major treaty against illicit drug trafficking (1988). Born on this day: Kylian Mbappé, Kim Young-Sam and Jaroslav Heyrovský. Died: John Steinbeck, Carl Sagan and Léopold Senghor.
30 events, 58 births and 58 deaths on this date.
Elizabeth, now older than Queen Victoria was at her death, took the record for the greatest age of any British sovereign. The record concerned age alone, not length of reign.
Original: Joel Rouse/ Ministry of Defence Derivative: nagualdesign · OGL 3The United Nations adopted a convention targeting the illegal trade in narcotics and psychotropic substances, tightening how member states police drug smuggling. It remains one of three main international drug control treaties in force today.
Hitler walked out of Landsberg after serving just over a year of a five-year sentence for the failed Munich coup of 1923. He had used the time to dictate much of Mein Kampf, which set out the ideas he would later push into government.
Thieves took the Picasso painting from the São Paulo Museum of Art in broad daylight. Police recovered it about three weeks later, leaving the artwork unharmed.
Portugal handed the former colony back to China, ending a Portuguese presence that began with a trading lease in 1557. Under the new arrangement, Macau keeps its own government and economy separate from those of the mainland.
Charlie fong · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Pope set up a worldwide gathering for young Catholics, which would later be held in cities across the globe. It gave young believers a regular event of their own, outside their parishes and national churches.
Unknown author Unknown author · CC BY 3.0 pl
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French forward who has become one of football's most prolific scorers, with more than 400 goals across club and country. Known for blistering speed, he won the 2018 World Cup as a teenager and later moved to Real Madrid.
Bryan Berlin · CC BY-SA 4.0
Kim Young-sam was South Korea's seventh president and the first to hold the office without a military background. He led a long campaign against the country's authoritarian regimes before taking power in 1993.
대한민국 국가기록원 · KOGL Type 1
Jaroslav Heyrovský, a Czechoslovak chemist and physicist, won the 1959 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for polarography. The technique measures the electric current in a solution as its voltage changes, and it became a standard tool in chemistry labs.
archiv ÚFCH J.Heyrovského AV ČR, v.v.i. · CC BY-SA 3.0
The American novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962 for fiction that mixed warmth with sharp social observation. He is remembered for The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men and East of Eden, many of them set in his native California.
McFadden Publications, Inc.; no photographer credited; photo likely the work of Sonya Noskowiak, as Steinbeck is wearing the same clothes from her 1935 studio session that produced the work shown here: https://www.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2006.74 · Public domain
Carl Sagan was an American astronomer and science communicator who presented the Cosmos television series, seen by hundreds of millions. He also wrote Contact, a novel later made into a film, and championed scientific scepticism.
NASA/JPL · Public domain
Léopold Sédar Senghor was the first president of Senegal, serving from 1960 to 1980. He was also a poet and a leading voice of Négritude, the movement celebrating African culture and Black identity.
Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F011981-0003,_Frankfurt-Main,_Staatspräsident_von_Senegal.jpg : Steiner, Egon derivative work: RoyFocker 12 ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
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