On this day in 1950, Indian politician and the 14thPrime Minister of India Narendra Modi was born.

1789 | British Astronomer William Herschel discovered Mimas, a moon of the planet Saturn.

1939 | For the first time in recorded history a man (Taisto Mäki) ran 10,000 metre in less than 30 minutes.

1940 | Nazi leader Adolf Hitler indefinitely postponed the Operation Sealion (planned German invasion of Great Britain).

1991 | North Korea and South Korea joined the United Nations along with Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

1991 | First version of the open-source operating system Linux kernel (0.01) was released on Internet.

2004 | Tamil was declared as the first classical language in India.

2019 | Climate activist Greta Thunberg told the US Congress, "I know you are trying but just not hard enough. Sorry” during her visit to the US Senate.

2021 | Famous Netflix drama "Squid Game" created by Hwang Dong-hyuk was released.