** Abgar V of Edessa ( Syrian Church )

** Astina ( Syrian Church )

** Ephrem the Syrian ( Roman Catholic Church and Church of England )

** Abai ( Syrian Orthodox Church )

** Arab League initiative for the peace resolution of the Syrian civil war

** Asalah Nasri, Syrian singer

** Qasim Melho, Syrian television actor

** Ghada Shouaa, Syrian athlete

** Syrian National Congress proclaim Syria independent with Faisal I of Iraq as king.

** Michel Aflaq, Syrian political theorist, founder of Ba ' athism ( d. 1989 )

** Israeli and Syrian jet fighters clash over the Jordan River.

** Syrian and Israeli troops clash over Lake Kinneret ( also known as the Sea of Galilee ) for 3 hours.

** Syrian armored forces cross the Jordanian border.

** Syrian Prime Minister Hafez al-Assad forms a new government but retains the post of defense minister.

** Maya Nasser, Syrian journalist ( d. 2012 )

** Christian General Michel Aoun declares a ' War of Liberation ' to rid Lebanon of Syrian forces and their allies.

** Ptolemy III, King of Egypt, who has reunited Egypt and Cyrenaica and successfully waged the Third Syrian War against the Seleucid kingdom

** Shams al-Dīn Abū Abd Allāh al-Khalīlī, Syrian astronomer ( b. 1320 )

** Jacobite Syrian Church

** Syrian Woodpecker, Dendrocopos syriacus

** Syrian Catholic Church

** Kibe / Quibe: extremely popular, it corresponds to the Lebanese dish kibbeh and was brought to mainstream Brazilian culture by Syrian and Lebanese immigrants.

** Abies cilicica — Syrian Fir

** The Jacobite Syrian Church of Kerala, a branch of Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch

** International Air Transport Association for Baker Army Air Field ( abandoned ), Baker Island, United States Minor Outlying Islands

** U. S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories ( 1943 – 69 )

** United States Army Medical Unit ( 1956 – 69 )

** U. S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases ( USAMRIID ; 1969 – present )

** Belgisch Leger ( Belgian Army )

** Afghan National Army Regional Hospital at Camp Shaheen

** In the 1971 film Dad's Army, German aircrew with photographs vital to the invasion crash land in England.

** Army Ten-Miler road race at The Pentagon.

** German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by 2 Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light near his home in Karlsruhe.

** German Autumn: Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin commit suicide in Stammheim prison ; Irmgard Möller fails ( their supporters still claim they were murdered ).

** Jarl Wahlström, Salvation Army general ( b. 1918 )

** Ten-Day War ( 1991 ) – a brief military conflict between Slovenian TO ( Slovenian Territorial Defence ) and the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) following Slovenia's declaration of independence.

** Croatian War of Independence ( 1991 – 1995 ) – the war fought in hegh town Croatia between the Croatian government, having declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and both the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) and Serb forces, who established the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) within Croatia.

** Richard D. Winters, U. S. Army officer ( d. 2011 )

** Walter Tull, First Black infantry officer to serve in the British Army ( b. 1888 )

** In Bad Kleinen, Germany, GSG 9 troopers arrest Birgit Hogefeld and kill Wolfgang Grams two Red Army Faction terrorists.

** The United States Army suspends Gene C. McKinney, Sergeant Major of the Army, its top-ranking enlisted soldier, after hearing allegations of sexual misconduct.

** An Irish Republican Army attack on the Brookeborough police barracks leads to the deaths of Seán South and Fergal O ' Hanlon.

** The U. S. military sustains its first combat fatality in Vietnam, Army Capt.

** Bramwell Tillsley, General of The Salvation Army

** George Carpenter, 5th General of The Salvation Army ( b. 1872 )

** An Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in the centre of Coventry, England, killing 5 people.

** Lawrence Oates, English Army officer ( b. 1880 ).

** William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army ( b. 1829 )