Other events of the day:
1775 - The Continental Congress established the United States Marine Corps.
1885 - Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach rode a gasoline-powered motorcycle for the first time.
1885 - Nikolai Przewalski's expedition to Central Asia ended.
1910 - Leo Tolstoy secretly left Yasenia Polyana on his last journey.
1917 - The decree "On the Workers' Militia" was issued.
1917 - The Patriarchate was restored in the Russian Orthodox Church.
1933 - Ivan Bunin was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1939 - Packard's first air-conditioned car was introduced in Chicago.
1945 - The World Federation for Democratic Youth was founded.
1961 - Stalingrad was renamed Volgograd.
1969 - The first episode of Sesame Street was released.
1970 - The Luna-17 station was launched, which carried Lonokhod-1 to the Moon.
1974 - The magic quark (one of the smallest known particles) is discovered.
1982 - Nautilus Pompilus group's birthday.
1983 - Fred Cohen first introduced a computer virus.
Science Day - Kyrgyzstan.
Den mulodyozhi (Youth Day) - Kyrgyzstan.
Militia Day (Police Day) - Tajikistan.
Police Day - Cuba.
Transnistria Police Day - PMR.
יום קצין החקירות הפלילי - מולדובה
March Day (Mardipäev) - Estonia.
Pride Day (Mongolian Pride Day) - Mongolia.
Birthday of the Marine Corps - USA.
National Vanilla Cupcake Day - USA.
National Forgetful Day - USA.
National Young Reader Day - USA.
World Cancer Day NET.
World Keratoconus Day.