EVENTS:
- 1745 – The first recorded women’s cricket match takes place near Guildford, England.
- 1847 – Liberia declares its independence.
- 1882 – The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
- 1946 – Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport.
- 1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.
- 1963 – Syncom 2, the world’s first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
- 1965 – Full independence is granted to the Maldives.
- 1971 – Apollo program: launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo “J-Mission“, and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.
- 2005 – Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission – Launch of Discovery, NASA’s first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
- 2005 – Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days.
- 2008 – 56 people are killed and over 200 people are injured in 21 bomb blasts in Ahmedabad bombing in India.
- 2013 – A gunman kills six people in Hialeah, Florida, and gets fatally shot by police.
- 2016 – Sagamihara stabbings occurs in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan and 19 people are killed.
- 2016 – Hillary Clinton became the first female nominee for President of the United States by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
- 2024 – Olympic swimmer Ana Carolina Vieira has been kicked out of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris due to sneaking out of the Olympic Village.
BIRTHS:
- 1856 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)
- 1858 – Tom Garrett, Australian cricketer (d. 1943)
- 1865 – Rajanikanta Sen, Indian poet and composer (d. 1910)
- 1888 – Reginald Hands, South African cricketer (d. 1918)
- 1927 – Gulabrai Ramchand, Indian cricketer (d. 2003)
- 1928 – Ibn-e-Safi, Indian-Pakistani author and poet (d. 1980)
- 1950 – Nelinho, Brazilian footballer
- 1971 – Khaled Mahmud, Bangladeshi cricketer and coach
- 1972 – Nathan Buckley, Australian footballer and coach
- 1974 – Dean Sturridge, English footballer
- 1980 – Robert Gallery, American football player
- 1980 – Mugdha Godse, Indian model and actress
- 1985 – Gaël Clichy, French footballer
- 1986 – John White, English footballer
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Day of the National Rebellion (Cuba)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Liberia in 1847.
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Maldives from the United Kingdom in 1965.
- Kargil Victory Day or Kargil Vijay Diwas (India)
