EVENTS:
- 1909 – The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
- 1936 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
- 1942 – The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
- 1948 – William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
- 1952 – The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewise labour parties.
- 1960 – Madagascar gains its independence from France.
- 2013 – Riots in China’s Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injuring 21 others.
- 2024 – Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, returns to Australia after pleading guilty to one charge of espionage in a Saipan court and subsequently being released by the United States Department of Justice.
BIRTHS:
- 1892 – Pearl S. Buck, American author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
- 1913 – Maurice Wilkes, English computer scientist (d. 2010)
- 1937 – Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1944 – Wolfgang Weber, German footballer and manager
- 1951 – Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer and manager
- 1968 – Shannon Sharpe, American football player and sportscaster
- 1970 – Adam Ndlovu, Zimbabwean footballer (d. 2012)
- 1975 – Terry Skiverton, English footballer and manager
- 1983 – Vinícius Rodrigues Almeida, Brazilian footballer
- 1997 – Callum Taylor, English cricketer
- 2004 – Mikey Williams, American basketball player
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Army and Navy Day (Azerbaijan)
- Flag Day (Romania)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Madagascar from France in 1960
- Independence Day (Somalia), celebrates the independence of British Somaliland from the British in 1960. (Somalia)
- International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (International)
