A birthday for Giorgio Armani (1934)

Anniversary of:
• the birthdays of Charlotte’s Web author E. B. White (1899), former PM Gough Whitlam (1916)
• the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
• the escape of Mexican drug lord Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán from a maximum-security prison near Mexico City (2015)
• the death of actor Laurence Olivier (1989)

To Kill A Mocking Bird FACTS

• To Kill A Mockingbird was the first novel Lee published but was not the first she wrote.
• To date, more than 40 million copies of Mockingbird have been sold. …
• Boo Radley’s real name is Arthur. …
• The main character Scout’s real name was Jean Lousie Finch.

World Population Day:

World Population day is an annual event, observed on July 11 every year, which seeks to raise awareness of global population issues. The event was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989.