Independence Day in Bangladesh

Purple Day for Epilepsy

Neighbour Day

Birthdays for Nancy Pelosi (1940), Bob Woodward (1943), Diana Ross (1944), Larry Page (1973), and Keira Knightley (1985)

Anniversary of:
• the deaths of Beethoven (1827) and Walt Whitman (1892)
• Boris Yeltsin becoming Russia’s first President (1989)
• the Schengen Treaty going into effect (1995)
• filmmaker James Cameron becoming the first person to visit Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth, in more than 50 years (2012)