EVENTS:
- 1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
- 1888 – The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
- 1908 – The Bulgarian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.
- 1914 – German submarine SM U-9 torpedoes and sinks the British cruisers HMS Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy on the Broad Fourteens off the Dutch coast with the loss of over 1,400 men.
- 1965 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also known as the Second Kashmir War) between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the UN calls for a ceasefire.
- 1980 – Iraq invades Iran.
- 1993 – A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
- 2013 – At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a church in Peshawar, Pakistan.
- 2024 – Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected as the 9th President Of Sri Lanka.
BIRTHS:
- 1887 – Bhaurao Patil, Indian educator and activist (d. 1959)
- 1901 – Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
- 1927 – Gordon Astall, English footballer and coach
- 1930 – P. B. Sreenivas, Indian singer (d. 2013)
- 1931 – Ashoka Mitran, Indian author
- 1936 – Maurice Evans, English footballer and manager (d. 2000)
- 1943 – Barry Cable, Australian footballer and coach
- 1957 – Steve Carney, English footballer (d. 2013)
- 1966 – Stefan Rehn, Swedish footballer and manager
- 1970 – Emmanuel Petit, French footballer
- 1978 – Harry Kewell, Australian footballer
- 1984 – Thiago Silva, Brazilian footballer
- 1990 – Denard Robinson, American football player
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Hobbit Day, the containing week is celebrated as Tolkien Week. (American Tolkien Society)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire in 1908.
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Mali from France in 1960.
- OneWebDay, an annual day of Internet celebration and awareness, started in 2006.
- Resistance Fighting Day (Estonia)
- World Car-Free Day
