The French department of "Corse" (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse (Upper Corsica) and Corse-du-Sud (Southern Corsica). 1978 – Muhammad Ali outpoints Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times at the Superdome in New Orleans. 1981 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. 1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C. 1983 – Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns. 1995 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 2133 crashes at Tawau Airport in Malaysia, killing 34. 2001 – During a CART race at the Lausitzring in Germany, former Formula One driver Alex Zanardi suffers a heavy accident resulting in him losing both his legs. 2004 – National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players' union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office. 2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history. 2011 – Four miners are killed in the Gleision Colliery mining accident in the Swansea Valley, Wales, UK. 2017 – The Parsons Green bombing takes place in London. 2020 – Signing of the Bahrain–Israel normalization agreement occurs in Washington, D.C., normalizing relations between Israel and two Arab nations, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Births Pre-1600 767 – Saichō, Japanese monk (d. 822) 1254 – Marco Polo, Italian merchant and explorer (d. 1324) 1461 – Jacopo Salviati, Italian politician (d. 1553) 1505 – Mary of Hungary, Dutch ruler (d. 1558) 1533 – Catherine of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1572) 1580 – Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer and author (d. 1659) 1592 – Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, archbishop of Fermo (d. 1653) 1601–1900 1613 – François de La Rochefoucauld, French soldier and author (d. 1680) 1649 – Titus Oates, English minister, fabricated the Popish Plot (d. 1705) 1666 – Sophia Dorothea of Celle (d. 1726) 1690 – Ignazio Prota, Italian composer and educator (d. 1748) 1715 – Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French general and engineer (d. 1789) 1736 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris (d. 1793) 1759 – Cornelio Saavedra, Argentinean general and politician (d. 1829) 1760 – Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, Prussian