UN Day
World Health Day
International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda

Day of Maternity and Beauty (Armenia)
Genocide Memorial Day (Rwanda)
Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume Day (Tanzania)
Women's Day (Mozambique)

Events
1788 – American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country.
1827 – John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
1927 – First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
1946 – Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.
1948 – The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
1948 – A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
1954 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
1956 – Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.
1964 – IBM announces the System/360.
1969 – The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.
1978 – Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
1983 – During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.
1992 – Republika Srpska announces its independence.
1994 – Rwandan Genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
1999 – The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
2001 – Mars Odyssey is launched.

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