yonder adverb, adjective: Over there; at a relatively distant place.
☰Thought of the Day
"I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago." - Jane Austen, from Persuasion
- US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enewetak Atoll
- Wimbledon Women's Tennis: In an all-British final Angela Mortimer wins her 3rd Grand Slam singles title; beats Christine Truman 4–6, 6–4, 7–5
- American rockers and brothers Chico DeBarge and Bobby DeBarge indicted on drug trafficking charges
- Japan says the Olympics will be held without spectators as Tokyo announces state of emergency due to a surge in COVID-19
- Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna of Altenburg, German-born Russian princess married to Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich, born in Altenburg (d. 1911)
- Norma Donaldson, American stage and screen singer and actress (Across 110th Street; Poetic Justice; The Young and the Restless), born in Harlem, New York City (d. 1994)
- Jane Tehira, New Zealand sportsperson (triple international: basketball, softball, hockey), born in Kaikohe, New Zealand (d. 2023)
- Phil Gramm, American economist and politician (US Representative for Texas, 1979-85; US Senator from Texas, 1985-2002), born in Fort Benning, Georgia
- Valarie Pettiford, American actress (One Life to Live, Half and Half), born in Queens, New York
