Tonga’s National Day
Tonga belongs to the Polynesian islands. The group of islands lie south of Samoa and about halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand.
Tonga is an archipelago with 171 islands in the South Pacific Ocean. Only 45 of 171 islands are inhabited.
The total land area of Tonga is slightly bigger than that of Singapore or 2.5 times larger than Malta or four times the size of Washington DC/ USA.
A birthday for actor Matthew McConaughey (1969)
Anniversary of:
• James Ritty patenting the first cash register to combat stealing by bartenders in his saloon in Dayton, Ohio (1879)
• archaeologist Howard Carter discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt (1922)
• the premiere of the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001)
• the election of Republican Ronald Reagan (1980) and Democrat Barack Obama (2008)