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International Reggae Day

International Chicken Wing Day

International Joke Day

Canada Day

 EVENTS

1858 – Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society of London.

1862 – The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum.

1874 – The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.

1881 – The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.

1890 – Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.

1908 – SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.

1921 – The Chinese Communist Party is founded by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao, with the help of the Far Eastern Bureau of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), who seized power in Russia after the 1917 October Revolution, and the Far Eastern Secretariat of the Communist International.

1931 – United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).

1931 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engined monoplane aircraft.

1932 – Australia's national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, was formed.

1949 – The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin royal family.

1957 – The International Geophysical Year begins.

1963 – ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail.

1966 – The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.

1972 – The first Gay pride march in England takes place.

1979 – Sony introduces the Walkman.

1991 – The Finnish operator Radiolinja is launched as the world's first GSM network

2002 – The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression.

2007 – Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.

2013 – Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.

Birth Anniversary of  Diana, princess of Wales (1961)( died August 31, 1997)

National Doctor’s Day

Death Anniversary of P Kesavadev (1983)

Death Anniversary of Swami Saswatheekananda (2002)