Pope Innocent VI, fifth of the Avignon popes and a noted reformer of church administration, died at Avignon.

Death of Pope Innocent VI

Jean Bolland, the Flemish Jesuit hagiographer who launched the Acta Sanctorum and gave his name to the Bollandists, died at Antwerp.

Death of Jean Bolland

Peter Dens, the Flemish Catholic theologian whose Theologia moralis et dogmatica became a widely used seminary textbook, was born at Boom near Antwerp.

Birth of Peter Dens

Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments demonstrated a working circuit with its components built into a single piece of semiconductor, the first integrated circuit and a foundation of modern electronics.

Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, opening the ten days of repentance.