World Lion Day
Birthdays for Antonio Banderas (1960), Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins (1962) and not quite a billionaire Kylie Jenner (1997)
Anniversary of:
• the Louvre Palace officially opening in Paris as The Museum Central des Arts (1793)
• the release of Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall album (1979)
• unrest breaking out in Ferguson, Missouri after the death of African-American Michael Brown while in police custody, starting the Black Lives Matter movement (2014)
• the death of Jeffrey Epstein (2019)
2008 – American singer-songwriter Isaac Hayes—a pioneering figure in soul music whose recordings influenced the development of such musical genres as disco, rap, and urban-contemporary—died at age 65.
