EVENTS:
- 1844– The first constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted.
- 1913– Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
- 1935 – First flight of the Hawker Hurricane, with its K5083 first prototype.
- 1944 – Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
- 1986 – Sumburgh disaster: A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 21⁄2 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.
- 1999– Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
- 2013 – Several small bombs explode outside a provincial office of the Chinese Communist Party in the northern city of Taiyuan, killing at least one person and wounding eight others.
- 2018 – Colorado gubernatorial election, 2018: Jared Polis becomes the first openly gay person elected as a governor in the United States.
BIRTHS:
- 1932 – François Englert, Belgian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1953 – Frank Hanisch, German footballer
- 1965 – René Unglaube, German footballer
- 1968 – Alfred Williams, American football player and radio host
- 1972 – Garry Flitcroft, English footballer and manager
- 1976 – Pat Tillman, American football player and soldier (d. 2004)
- 1981 – Kaspars Gorkšs, Latvian footballer
- 1984 – Sebastian Schachten, German footballer
- 1993 – Josh Wakefield, English footballer
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Constitution Day (Dominican Republic (1884), Tajikistan (1994), Tatarstan (1992))
- Finnish Swedish Heritage Day, a flag day (Finland)
- Green March (Morocco)
- Gustavus Adolphus Day, death of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and official flag day (Sweden)
- International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict (International)
