- It's National Toilet Paper Day (and I am not making a toilet paper tie)
- In 1789 the National Constituent Assembly of France approved the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
- In 1920 the 19th Amendment to the Constitution took effect, giving women the right to vote
- Birthday of French chemist Antoine Lavoisier (1743), Queen Victoria's consort Prince Albert (1819), and Indian nun and missionary Mother Teresa (1910)
- Feast Day for Melchizedek, the Biblical "King of Salem" who knew Abraham (on the calendar of the Roman Catholic Church)
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