► International Tiger Day
• 1858 – United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
• 1883 – Birth of Benito Mussolini, Italian journalist and politician,
27th Prime Minister of Italy (Death on 1945)
• 1890 - Artist Vincent van Gogh died of a self-inflicted
gunshot wound in Auvers, France, at age 37.
• 1921 – Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist
German Workers Party.
• 1987 – Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of
Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues.
• 2005 – Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf
planet Eris.
