In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May. 1990 – Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void. 1992 – The 7.7 Nicaragua earthquake affected the west coast of Nicaragua. With a – disparity of half a unit, this tsunami earthquake triggered a tsunami that caused most of the damage and casualties, with at least 116 killed. Typical runup heights were . 1998 – Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia; all 229 people on board are killed. 1998 – The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide. 2008 – Google launches its Google Chrome web browser. 2009 – The Andhra Pradesh, India helicopter crash occurred near Rudrakonda Hill, 40 nautical miles (74 km) from Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India. Fatalities included Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. 2010 – Israel-Palestinian conflict: the 2010 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are launched by the United States. 2013 – The Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens at 10:15 PM at a cost of $6.4 billion, after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the old span. 2019 – Hurricane Dorian, a category 5 hurricane, devastates the Bahamas, killing at least five. Births Pre-1600 1243 – Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, 6th Earl of Hertford, English politician (d. 1295) 1251 – Francis of Fabriano, Italian writer (d. 1322) 1516 – Francis I, Duke of Nevers (d. 1561) 1531 – Francesco Cattani da Diacceto, Bishop of Fiesole (d. 1595) 1548 – Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (d. 1616) 1601–1900 1661 – Georg Böhm, German organist and composer (d. 1733) 1675 – William Somervile, English poet and author (d. 1742) 1753 – Marie Joséphine of Savoy (d. 1810) 1778 – Louis Bonaparte, French-Dutch king (d. 1846) 1805 – Esteban Echeverría, Argentinian poet and author (d. 1851) 1810 – Lysander Button, American engineer (d. 1898) 1810 – William Seymour Tyler, American historian and educator (d. 1897) 1814 – Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist and historian (d. 1896) 1820 – Lucretia Peabody Hale, American journalist and author (d. 1900) 1830 – William P. Frye, American lawyer and politician (d. 1911) 1838 – Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Indian guru and philosopher