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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American journalist and socialite, 37th First Lady of the United States (died 1994)
Saint Alphonsa, first woman of Indian origin to be canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church (born 1910)
At the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, Australian Ian Thorpe became the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single FINA world championship.
Aged 18, Vinnie Ream became the youngest artist and first woman to receive a United States government commission for a statue—that of Abraham Lincoln currently in the Capitol rotunda.
The first piece of suspected debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is discovered on Réunion Island.
In New York City, David Berkowitz (a.k.a. the "Son of Sam") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi.
First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
The Neo-Babylonian Empire sacks Jerusalem and destroys the First Temple.
Earliest day on which Somer's Day can fall, while August 4 is the latest; celebrated on Friday before the first Monday in August. (Bermuda)
The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings, was published by Allen & Unwin.
In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup by beating Argentina.
First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) was elected to his first full term as president, having served as leader since the 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état.
Brigham Young led the first group of Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley of Utah, at the time a part of Mexico.
Louise Brown, English woman, first person to be born through in vitro fertilization
Andrew Lawson, Scottish-Canadian Geologist, first to identify and name the San Andreas Fault (died 1952)