* 1932 – Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician ( d. 2005 )

* 1971 – Piyal Wijetunge, Sri Lankan cricketer

* 2010 – The MV Sun Sea docks in CFB Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada, carrying 492 Sri Lankan Tamils.

* 2006 – Chencholai bombing in which 61 Tamil girls are killed in Sri Lankan Airforce bombing.

* 1971 – Pramodya Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan cricketer

* 1951 – Ranjan Gunatilleke, Sri Lankan cricketer

* 1952 – Mahes Goonatilleke, Sri Lankan cricketer

* 1977 – The 1977 riots in Sri Lanka, targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamil people, begin, less than a month after the United National Party came to power.

* 1956 – Sidath Wettimuny, Sri Lankan cricketer

* 1987 – Sabrina Herft, Sri Lankan model, Miss Universe Sri Lanka 2012

* 1952 – Duleep Mendis, Sri Lankan cricketer

* 2000 – Second Battle of Elephant Pass: Tamil Tigers capture a strategic Sri Lankan Army base and hold it for 8 years.

* 1983 – Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer

* 1993 – Sri Lankan politician Lalith Athulathmudali is assassinated while addressing a gathering, approximately 4 weeks ahead of the Provincial Council elections for the Western Province.

* 1915 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan politician and the world's first female head of government ( d. 2000 )

* 1972 – Muttiah Muralitharan, Sri Lankan cricketer

Sri Lankan astrology is largely based on Hindu astrology with some modifications to bring it in line with Buddhist teachings.

* 1962 – Uvais Karnain, Sri Lankan cricketer

* 1985 – Jacqueline Fernandez, Sri Lankan Model and Bollywood Actress

* 1979 – Dinusha Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer

Composer Dinesh Subasinghe became the first Sri Lankan to write a cappella pieces for SATB choirs.

* 2006 – A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger ( known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF ).

* 1987 – The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that explodes in the Sri Lankan city of Colombo, killing 106 people.

The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer are sunk off the island's east coast.

During the Napoleonic wars the Kingdom of the Netherlands adopted the French code civil in 1809, however the Dutch colonies in the Cape of Good Hope and Sri Lanka, at the time called Ceylon, were seized by the British to prevent them being used as bases by the French Navy.

* April 5 – WWII: the Japanese Navy attacks Colombo in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ).

** The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); the Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy destroyer are sunk off the country's East Coast.

* Special Boat Squadron ( Sri Lanka ), a special forces unit of the Sri Lanka Navy

Basic training for new recruits of the Sri Lanka Navy which is approximately six months are conducted at Advanced Naval Training Center, SLNS ' Nipuna '; Naval Artificer Training Institute, SLNS ' Thakshila ', Welisara ; and at Naval Recruit Training Centres at several shore establishments.

The LTTE broke the ceasefire and blew up two Sri Lanka Navy gun boats known as SLNS ' Sooraya ' and ' Ranasuru ' on 19 April, thus beginning the next phase of the war, dubbed Eelam War III.

The Sri Lanka Armed Forces is the overall unified military of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka encompassing the Sri Lanka Army, the Sri Lanka Navy, the Sri Lanka Air Force which comes under preview of the Ministry of Defence ( Sri Lanka ) ( MoD ).

After the convoy was blocked by the Sri Lanka Navy, India instead chose to airdrop supplies to the besieged city in a mission codenamed Operation Poomalai.

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ceylon, after the former British colony of Ceylon, now Sri Lanka.

The motto has been adopted or used by a number of institutions around the world including UNAM in Mexico, Jurong Junior College in Singapore, Malden Catholic High School in Massachusetts, Newstead Girls College, the oldest existing public school in Sri Lanka, the Colombian Navy and the secondary school in Trompsburg.

* Vice Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe, Commander, Sri Lankan Navy, 2009 – present.

* Jayasagara class ( Sri Lanka Navy )

* Colombo class ( Sri Lanka Navy )

The naval and air bases were take over by Sri Lanka in 1957, today SLNS Tissa and SLN Dockyard are used by the Sri Lankan Navy, while the Sri Lanka Air Force is based at SLAF China Bay.

Judges wear black gowns in the District Court, High Court Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka while counsel only wear black gowns in the latter three courts.

Highly possible, a messenger sent by Maharaja Sri Indravarman to deliver his letter for Caliph Umar ibn AbdulAziz of Ummayad in 718, was returned to Srivijaya with Zanji ( black female slave from Zanj ), the Caliph's present for maharaja.

On 28 August 2008, Anwar, dressed in a dark blue traditional Malay outfit and black " songkok " hat, took the oath at the main chamber of Parliament house in Kuala Lumpur, as MP for Permatang Pauh at 10. 03 am before Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia.

The Sri Lankan race lankae is smaller and dark while atronuchalis the race in north-eastern India and eastern Bangladesh has a white cheek surrounded by black.

The Sri Lankan form has more black on the face, more red on the breast and darker streaks on the underside.

Indian specimens have black spots on the crown but Sri Lankan populations have no such markings.

Unlike the Black-rumped Flameback ( D. benghalense ) and the Common Flameback ( D. javanense ), the Greater Flamebacks ' dark moustache stripes are divided by white ( making them inconspicuous at a distance ); except in stricklandi, their hindneck is white ( not black ), and even in the Sri Lankan birds the dark colour does not extend to between the shoulders as it does in Dinopium ; consequently, when seen from behind the black-and-white-headed Greater Flamebacks outside Sri Lanka show a white neck bordered with black on the sides, while the Dinopium species have a black neck and upper back, with thin white borders to the neck.

( Broken Orange Pekoe ), and dust graded black teas at a Sri Lankan tea factory.

There are several distinctive taxa that generally have been considered subspecies of the Black-crested Bulbul, but increasingly are treated as separate species ( and actually were considered separate species originally ): The Ruby-throated Bulbul ( P. dispar ) from Sumatra and Java is virtually crestless, has a deep red throat and reddish eyes, the Flame-throated Bulbul ( P. gularis ) from the Western Ghats in India is virtually crestless, has an orange-red throat and whitish eyes, the Black-capped Bulbul ( P. melanicterus ) from Sri Lanka is virtually crestless, has a yellow throat and brownish eyes, and the Bornean Bulbul ( P. montis ) from Borneo has a black crest, yellow throat and brownish eyes.

The peninsular Indian and Sri Lankan populations ( H. ganeesa and H. g. humii ) have no black streak behind the eye and on the ear-coverts that is present in the Himalayan populations ( H. l. psaroides and H. l. nigrescens ).

The two subspecies in the Western Ghats have black hoods, but the two Sri Lankan races have this reduced to a dark bandit mask.

Young birds are however all black and can be confused with the Black Drongo although smaller and more compact in appearance and the subspecies found in Sri Lanka has white restricted to the vent.

Males of the Sri Lankan race H. a. ceylonensis lack the black nape and gorget and the shade is more purplish.

In southwestern India and Sri Lanka multicolor has the breeding males with a jet black cap and mantle.

In Sri Lanka, usually black tea is served with milk and sugar, but the milk is always warmed.

In the Sri Lankan Army, the Armoured Corps, Mechanized Infantry and the Special Forces wear black berets.

The Portuguese brought black slaves to Sri Lanka from East Africa, Kaffirs.

Generally for bhikkhunis, robes would be maroon with yellow in Tibet ; gray ( for Mahayanans ) or orange / yellow ( for Theravadans ) in Vietnam ; gray in Korea ; gray or black in China and Taiwan ; black in Japan ; orange or yellow in Thailand, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Laos, Cambodia and Burma.