Civil unrest in the Maldives breaks out after a prisoner is killed by guards. 2007 – Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters march on Jena, Louisiana, United States, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate. 2008 – A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others. 2011 – The United States military ends its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time. 2017 – Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, resulting in 2,975 deaths, US$90 billion in damage, and a major humanitarian crisis. 2018 – At least 161 people die after a ferry capsizes close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria, Tanzania. 2019 – Roughly four million people, mostly students, demonstrate across the world to address climate change. Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden leads the demonstration in New York City. Births Pre-1600 917 – Kyunyeo, Korean poet (d. 973) 1161 – Emperor Takakura of Japan (d. 1181) 1449 – Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (d. 1500) 1486 – Arthur, Prince of Wales (d. 1502) 1504 – Philip III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1559) 1514 – Philipp IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1590) 1593 – Gottfried Scheidt, German organist and composer (d. 1661) 1599 – Christian the Younger of Brunswick (d. 1623) 1601–1900 1608 – Jean-Jacques Olier, French priest and mystic, founded the Society of Saint-Sulpice (d. 1657) 1614 – Martino Martini, Italian missionary, cartographer and historian (d. 1661) 1685 – Giuseppe Matteo Alberti, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1751) 1685 – Mateo de Toro Zambrano, 1st Count of La Conquista, President of the First Government Junta of Chile (d. 1811) 1746 – Maurice, Count de Benyovszky, Slovak-Hungarian explorer (d. 1786) 1758 – Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian emperor (d. 1806) 1778 – Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian admiral, cartographer, and explorer (d. 1852) 1800 – Benjamin Franklin White, American singer and composer (d. 1879) 1815 – Richard Dry, Australian politician, 7th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1869) 1819 – Frederick Ellsworth Sickels, American inventor (d. 1895) 1820 – John F. Reynolds, American general (d. 1863) 1831 – Kate Harrington, American poet and educator (d. 1917) 1833 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1918) 1842 – James Dewar,