Historical Events
- New record set for price of a parking lot in Hong Kong - $664,000
- Rebel Wilson win defamation case against Bauer Media at The Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne
Event of Interest
Scotland Yard launches criminal inquiry and British Prime Minister Theresa May announces a public inquiry a day after the Grenfell Tower fire
Theresa May
Famous Deaths
- Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor named a People's Artist of the USSR (1976) and a Hero of Socialist Labour (1989), dies at 88
- James W. McCord Jr., American CIA officer who led the Watergate break-in, dies of pancreatic cancer at 93
- John Robert Jones [John Dalmas], American sci-fi author (White Regiment, Lizard War), dies at 90