International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

Singapore’s National Day

Birthdays for tennis player Rod Laver (1938), designer Michael Kors (1959), former Kiwi PM John Key (1961), actor Gillian Anderson (1968), actor Eric Bana (1968), and actor Anna Kendrick (1985)

Anniversary of:
• the opening of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican (1483)
• the US dropping an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan (1945)
• the Manson family committing the Tate-LaBianca murders (1969)

2014 – Michael Brown, an unarmed African American teenager, was fatally shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, resulting in days of civil unrest and protests fueled by tensions between Ferguson’s predominantly Black population and its predominantly white government and police department.

1173 – In Pisa, Italy, construction began on a bell tower that became internationally famous as the Leaning Tower of Pisa.