EVENTS:
- 1852 – Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard. The race is also the first American intercollegiate athletic event
- 1900 – The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
- 1914 – World War I: Germany declares war against France.
- 1960 – Niger gains independence from France.
- 1977 – Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world’s first mass-produced personal computers.
- 2004 – The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
- 2010 – Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage.
- 2014 – A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.
- 2018 – Two burka-clad men have killed 29 people and injured more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.
- 2019 – Twenty-three people are killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.
- 2023 – Worst floods hit major parts of Slovenia.
BIRTHS:
- 1855 – Joe Hunter, English cricketer (d. 1891)
- 1886 – Maithili Sharan Gupt, Indian poet (d. 1964)
- 1916 – Shakeel Badayuni, Indian poet and songwriter (d. 1970)
- 1933 – Pat Crawford, Australian cricketer (d. 2009)
- 1937 – Duncan Sharpe, Pakistani cricketer
- 1939 – Apoorva Sengupta, Indian general and cricketer
- 1956 – Balwinder Sandhu, Indian cricketer and coach
- 1959 – Koichi Tanaka, Japanese chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1960 – Gopal Sharma, Indian cricketer
- 1964 – Kevin Sumlin, American football player and coach
- 1967 – Manmohan Waris, Indian singer
- 1977 – Tom Brady, American football player
- 1984 – Sunil Chhetri, Indian footballer
- 1989 – Sam Hutchinson, English footballer
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES:
- Emancipation Day (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
- Flag Day (Venezuela)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Niger from France in 1960.
