the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. 2003 – Iraq War: In Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers. 2003 – Typhoon Maemi, the strongest recorded typhoon to strike South Korea, made landfall near Busan. 2005 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the Israeli disengagement from Gaza is completed, leaving some 2,530 homes demolished. 2007 – Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of plunder. 2007 – Two earthquakes measuring 8.4 and 7.9 on the Richter Scale hits the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing 25 people and injuring 161. 2008 – The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people. 2011 – The National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City opens to the public. 2013 – NASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space. 2015 – A series of explosions involving propane triggering nearby illegally stored mining detonators in the Indian town of Petlawad in the state of Madhya Pradesh kills at least 105 people with over 150 injured. Births Pre-1600 1415 – John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (d. 1461) 1494 – Francis I of France (d. 1547) 1590 – María de Zayas, Spanish writer (d. 1661) 1601–1900 1605 – William Dugdale, English genealogist and historian (d. 1686) 1690 – Peter Dens, Flemish theologian and academic (d. 1775) 1725 – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792) 1736 – Hsinbyushin, Burmese king (d. 1776) 1739 – Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, Methodist preacher and philanthropist (d. 1815) 1740 – Johann Heinrich Jung, German author and academic (d. 1817) 1768 – Benjamin Carr, English-American singer-songwriter, educator, and publisher (d. 1831) 1797 – Samuel Joseph May, American activist (d. 1871) 1812 – Edward Shepherd Creasy, English historian and jurist (d. 1878) 1812 – Richard March Hoe, American engineer and businessman, invented the Rotary printing press (d. 1886) 1818 – Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor, invented the Gatling gun (d. 1903) 1818 – Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1882) 1828 – William Morgan, English-Australian politician, 14th Premier of South Australia (d. 1883) 1829 – Anselm Feuerbach, German painter (d. 1880) 1829 – Charles Dudley Warner, American essayist and novelist (d. 1900) 1830 – William Sprague, American businessman and politician, 27th Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1915) 1837 – Louis IV, Grand Duke of