** Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, rabbi and mystic ( d. 1620 )

** Aharon Ibn Hayyim, Biblical and Talmudic commentator

** Luzzatto, Moses Hayyim.

** Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law.

** A general strike in the old quarter of Jerusalem protests Israel's unification of the city.

** In Lebanon, Hezbollah announces that it has hanged United States Marines U. S. Marine Lt. Col. William R. Higgins in retaliation for Israel's July 28 kidnapping of Hezbollah leader Abdel Karim Obeid.

** Israeli settlement, communities inhabited by Israeli Jews in territory that came under Israel's control as a result of the 1967 Six-Day War

** Welcome of emigrants by diaspora Jewish community is seen as a possible betrayal of the Zionist ideal — immigration to Israel — and endangerment of Israel's success in retaining and growing its Jewish population.

** British-Americans and on-going developments in New England cuisine, the national traditions founded in cuisine of the thirteen colonies and some aspects of other regional cuisine.

** The effects of these events on agriculture, farmers, and on the supply of agricultural offerings for the Jerusalem temple, interspersed with a call to national lament.

** A call to national repentance in the face of God ’ s judgment.

** Banishment of the locusts and restoration of agricultural productivity as a divine response to national penitence.

** L ' Orléanide, Poème national en vingt-huit chants, by Philippe-Alexandre Le Brun de Charmettes ( 1821 )

** Domestic telephone system: a national fiber-optic cable interurban trunk system is nearing completion ; rural exchanges are being improved and expanded ; mobile cellular systems are being installed ; access to the Internet is available ;

** In addition, interviews with actors and directors which are filmed en masse at a hotel with local and national entertainment reporters which are featured on local news shows, programs on cable networks, and series such as Byron Allen's series of entertainment series like Entertainment Studios.

** George ( Eastern Orthodox, a national holiday in Georgia )

** Istituto Professionale: it is a manly vocational school which offers a very specialized formation on a specific field for those looking into entering work ; it is generally organized at local level according to the local economy and industry and based on broad national guidelines ; it offers periods of stage in the local firms as a part of their courses.

** Italian Language and Literature, decided at national level and the same for all examinees: either a text comprehension and critique, or the writing of an essay

** a subject dependent on the kind of school followed, decided at national level for each different path

** Koninklijke TNT Post, the former national postal company in the Netherlands, succeeded by PostNL

** Bashar al-Assad is confirmed as Syria's leader in a national referendum.

** The Likud Party, led by Menachem Begin, wins the national elections in Israel.

** Thirteen years after its proposal and nearly 2 years after its passage by the United States Senate, the 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.

** Winston Churchill scraps UK compulsory national Identity Cards.

** All members of the Zambia national football team die in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon in route to Dakar, Senegal.

** Grady the Cow, a 1, 200-pound cow, gets stuck inside a silo on a farm in Yukon, Oklahoma and garners national media attention in the United States.

** Ohio State defeats USC in the Rose Bowl to win the national title for the 1968 season.

** WWII: President Roosevelt proclaims an " unlimited national emergency.

** President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt's " Infamy " Address to a Joint Session of Congress at 12: 30 p. m. EST ( 17. 30 GMT ) and transmitted live over all four major national networks attracts the largest audience ever for an American radio broadcast, over 81 % of homes.

** Cold War: Soviet troops occupy Baku, Azerbaijan, under the state of emergency decree issued by Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev and kill over 130 and wound over 700 protesters for national independence.

** John F. Kennedy assassination: Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of John F. Kennedy, is shot dead by Jack Ruby in Dallas, Texas on live national television.

** Syed Abdul Rahim, First ever Indian national football manager ( b. 1909 )

** Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.

** Ai Qing ( 1910 – 1996 ), poet and political prisoner

** Argonautica by Gaius Valerius Flaccus ( Roman poet, Greek mythology )

** Thebaid and Achilleid by Statius ( Roman poet, Greek mythology )

** Grook – form of short aphoristic poem invented by the Danish poet and scientist Piet Hein, who wrote over 7, 000 of them.

** Artur Adson, Estonian poet, writer and theatre critic ( b. 1889 )

** Shel Silverstein, American author and poet ( b. 1930 )

** Abdul-Qader Bedil, Persian Sufi poet ( d. 1720 )

** Nel Benschop, Dutch poet ( d. 2005 )

** William Jay Smith, American poet

** Joyce Kilmer, American journalist and poet ( b. 1886 )

** Wilfred Owen, British poet and soldier ( b. 1893 )

** Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet ( b. 1880 )

** Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet ( b. 1891 )

** Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet ( b. 1887 )

** Hedd Wyn, Welsh poet ( killed in action ) ( b. 1887 )

** Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet ( d. 1886 )

** Stephen Foster, American songwriter and poet ( d. 1864 )

** Kočo Racin, Macedonian poet and revolutionary ( d. 1943 )

** Christopher Dewdney, Canadian poet

** Joy Harjo, Native American poet

** Paul Muldoon, Irish poet

** Garrett Hongo, American poet

** Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter ( d. 1972 )

** Stanley Vestal, American writer, poet, historian ( b. 1877 )

** Sri Chinmoy, Bengali spiritual teacher, poet, artist and athlete who immigrated to the U. S. in 1964 ( d. 2007 )