International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers 

Birthdays for Noel Gallagher (1967), Myf Warhurst (1974), Mel B (1975) and Laverne Cox (1984)

Anniversary of :
• women’s right activist and abolitionist Sojourner Truth giving her famous ‘Ain’t I a woman?’ speech at the first Black Women’s Rights Convention in Ohio (1851)
• the birthday of John F Kennedy (1917)
• Bing Crosby recording White Christmas, which would become the world’s best-selling single with over 100 million copies sold (1942)
• NZ mountaineer Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay becoming are first people confirmed to reach the summit of Mount Everest (1953)
• Space Shuttle Discovery completing the first docking with the International Space Station (1999)
• transgender no longer classified as a mental health illness by the World Health Organization (2017)