Born 1984: Javier Mascherano, Argentinian footballer and manager
Born 1983: Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player; winner of six Grand Slam tournament titles.
Born 1982: Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
Born 1981: Rachel Held Evans, American Christian author (died 2019)
Born 1985: Alexandre Despatie, Canadian diver, twice Olympic silver 3m springboard silver medallist
Born 2004: Francesca Capaldi, American actress
Born 1997: Jeļena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player
Born 1995: Ferland Mendy, French footballer
Born 1994: Liv Morgan, American professional wrestler
Born 1989: Timea Bacsinszky, Swiss tennis player
Born 1986: Keith Gill, American financial analyst and investor
Died 2014: Alexander Imich, Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, and academic (born 1903)
Died 2014: Yoshihito, Prince Katsura of Japan (born 1948)
Died 2013: Paul Cellucci, American soldier and politician, 69th Governor of Massachusetts (born 1948)
Died 2024: Ramoji Rao, Indian businessman, media proprietor and film producer (born 1936)
Died 2024: Chet Walker, American basketball player (born 1940)
Died 2023: Pat Robertson, American televangelist (born 1930)
Died 2022: Paula Rego, Portuguese-British visual artist (born 1935)
Died 2019: Andre Matos, Brazilian heavy metal musician (born 1971)
Died 2018: Anthony Bourdain, American chef and travel documentarian (born 1956)
Died 2015: Chea Sim, Cambodian commander and politician (born 1932)
1982: VASP Flight 168 crashes in Pacatuba, Ceará, Brazil, killing 128 people.
2023: Former US President Donald Trump is indicted on federal charges of misusing classified information.
2007: Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
2007: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-117 carrying two truss segments and solar arrays to the International Space Station.
2001: Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.
1995: Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
1992: The first World Oceans Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1992: GP Express Airlines Flight 861 crashes on approach to Anniston Regional Airport in Anniston, Alabama, killing three.
1987: New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
1984: Homosexuality is decriminalized in the Australian state of New South Wales.
1983: Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8 loses one of its propellers in flight resulting in damage to the flight controls. The Lockheed L-188 Electra makes an emergency landing at Anchorage International Airport and there are no injuries.
1982: Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: Fifty-six British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
2004: The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
1972: Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running naked down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo.
1968: James Earl Ray, the man who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested at London Heathrow Airport.
2008: 7 people are killed and 11 more are injured in a massacre in Akihabara.
2007: Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years, resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
1972: Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured in a photograph moments later while the young girl is seen running naked down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo.
Holiday: Christian feast day: Blessed Mary of the Divine Heart (Droste zu Vischering)
Holiday: Christian feast day: Medard
Holiday: Christian feast day: Melania the Elder
Holiday: Christian feast day: Roland Allen (Episcopal Church (USA))
Holiday: Christian feast day: Thomas Ken (Church of England)
Holiday: Christian feast day: William of York
Holiday: Christian feast day: Chlodulf of Metz
Holiday: Christian feast day: Jacques Berthieu, S.J.
Holiday: Christian feast day: Jadwiga (Hedwig) of Poland
Holiday: Christian feast day: Mariam Thresia Chiramel