** Father Damien Day ( Hawaii )

** Earliest day on which Emancipation Day can fall, celebrated on the first Monday of August.

** Emancipation Day ( Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago )

** Stephen of Perm, see also Old Permic Alphabet Day

** Gwangbokjeol, " Liberation Day " ( South Korea )

** Jogukhaebangui nal, " Fatherland Liberation Day " ( North Korea )

** Workers Memorial Day ( International )

** World Day for Safety and Health at Work ( International )

** International Mother Earth Day ( International )

** Hansik and Arbor Day ( South Korea )

** UnFreedom Day ( South Africa, unofficial )

** Mother's Day ( Panama )

** Barbórka, Miners ' Day in Poland

** Day of Good Will ( South Africa and Namibia )

** Family Day ( Vanuatu )

** Father's Day ( Bulgaria )

** Sanghamitta Day

** National Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Lucia from United Kingdom in 1979.

** Defender of the Fatherland Day ( Russia )

** World Day of the Sick ( Roman Catholic Church )

** La Chandeleur or Crêpe Day ( France )

** Bun Day ( Iceland )

** Last Day

** Midsummer Day ( England )

** Martyrs ' Day ( India )

** People's Republic of China

** Youth Day ( People's Republic of China )

** President of the Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea: Ri Kwang-gon ( since April 2009 )

** Toronto Film Festival People's Choice Award Winner

** France and the People's Republic of China announce their decision to establish diplomatic relations.

** The Republic of China ( Taiwan ) drops diplomatic relations with France because of French recognition of the People's Republic of China.

** The People's Republic of China explodes an atomic bomb in Sinkiang.

** 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.

** The People's Dispensary for Sick Animals is founded in the United Kingdom.

** Jiang Zemin becomes President of the People's Republic of China.

** Yemeni parliamentary election, 1993: The General People's Congress wins a plurality of 121 seats.

** The National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China creates a new Chongqing Municipality, out of part of Sichuan.

** The First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference approves a design for the Flag of the People's Republic of China.

** People's Democracy begins a march from Belfast to Derry, Northern Ireland in support of civil rights.

** A grassroots movement of Berkeley community members seizes an empty lot owned by the University of California to begin the formation of " People's Park ".

** Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China

** Critic and commentator Alexander Woollcott suffers an eventually fatal heart attack during a regular broadcast of the CBS Radio roundtable program " People's Platform ".

** Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania, with himself as prime minister.

** Zhou Ji, education minister of the People's Republic of China

** Cold War: The leaders of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen announce the unification of their countries as the Republic of Yemen.

** Yang Shangkun, former President of the People's Republic of China ( b. 1907 )