1991 – Pan Am ceases operations
The Pan American World Airways, the largest airline in the United States began operations in October 1927.
1982 – China adopts its current constitution
The Constitution of the People's Republic of China replaced the Constitutions of 1954, 1975, and 1978.
1980 – Led Zeppelin disbands
The British rock band announced that it was disbanding 12 years after coming on the music scene after the death of drummer John Bonham.
1978 – Dianne Feinstein became the first female mayor of San Francisco
A United States Senator from California, Feinstein became the 38th mayor of San Francisco after the murder of George Moscone.
1791 – First Sunday paper published
The Observer, a British newspaper became the first newspaper in the world to be published and read on a Sunday.
1969 – Jay-Z
American rapper, producer, actor, co-founded Roc-A-Fella Records
1964 – Marisa Tomei
American actress
1949 – Jeff Bridges
American actor, singer, producer
1923 – Charles Keating
American lawyer, businessman
1892 – Francisco Franco
Spanish general, politician, Caudillo of Spain
1993 – Frank Zappa
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer
1976 – Benjamin Britten
English composer, conductor, pianist
1975 – Hannah Arendt
German/American theorist, philosopher
1893 – John Tyndall
British physicist
1123 – Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician, astronomer, poet
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