mordant adjective: Biting, caustic, or sarcastic. noun: 1. A substance used to fix a dye in or on a material. 2. A corrosive substance used in etching. verb tr.: To treat with a mordant.
☰Thought of the Day
"Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a managed or well-conducted one." - Lord Radcliffe, 1967 cited in Peter Hennessy’s 1985 book What the Papers Never Said.
- François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (Quatre dialogues sur l'immortalité de l'âme), born in Paris (d. 1724)
- Jean Aimé Vernier, French harpist and composer, born in Paris (d. 1838)
- Justus van Maurik, Dutch author and cigar manufacturer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1904)
- Bernarr McFadden, American physical culture advocate, credited with beginning the culture of health and fitness in the United States, born in Mill Spring, Missouri (d. 1955)
- Harold Foster, Canadian-American cartoonist (Prince Valian), born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (d. 1982)
- Helmut Rahn, German footballer who scored the winning goal in the final of the 1954 World Cup, born in Essen, Germany (d. 2003)
- Betsy von Furstenberg, German-American actress (Machine Calls it Murder), born in Nelheim, Germany (d. 2015)
- Eric Weissberg, American singer and musician ("Dueling Banjos"), born in New York City (d. 2020)
- Kansas City Packers' Alex Main no-hits Buffalo Blues (Federal League), 5-0
- The Beatles perform in concert at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for their second and final show in the city
- USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeastern Kazakhstan
- The South African soccer team, Bafana Bafana wins against the national team of the Democratic Republic of the Congo at First National Bank stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and his cabinet resign after losing their majority amid political turmoil
- Bernarr McFadden, American physical culture advocate, credited with beginning the culture of health and fitness in the United States, born in Mill Spring, Missouri (d. 1955)
- Andreas Stamatiadis, Greek soccer forward (8 caps; AEK Athens 316 games), born in Athens, Greece (d. 2025)
- George Galloway, British politician, broadcaster, and writer, born in Dundee, Scotland
- Anne L'Huillier, French-Swedish physicist (2023 Nobel Prize for Physics for attosecond pulses of light), born in Paris, France
- Taylor Goldsmith, American folk-rock singer-songwriter, and guitarist (Dawes), born in Los Angeles, California
