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| *[[1944]] – [[The Holocaust]]: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the [[Gestapo]] to a sealed-off area in an [[Amsterdam]] warehouse, where they find and arrest [[Jews|Jew]]ish [[Diary|diarist]] [[Anne Frank]], her family, and four others. | *[[1944]] – [[The Holocaust]]: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the [[Gestapo]] to a sealed-off area in an [[Amsterdam]] warehouse, where they find and arrest [[Jews|Jew]]ish [[Diary|diarist]] [[Anne Frank]], her family, and four others. | ||
| *[[1958]] – The [[Billboard Hot 100]] is published for the first time. | *[[1958]] – The [[Billboard Hot 100]] is published for the first time. | ||
| - | *[[1964]] – [[African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968)|American civil rights movement]]: [[Civil and political rights|civil rights]] workers [[Michael Schwerner]], [[Andrew Goodman]] and [[James Chaney]] are found dead in [[Mississippi]] after disappearing on [[June 21]]. | ||
| - | * 1964 – [[Gulf of Tonkin incident]]: U.S. [[destroyer]]s {{USS|Maddox|DD-731|6}} and {{USS|Turner Joy|DD-951|6}} report coming under attack in the [[Gulf of Tonkin]]. | ||
| - | *[[1965]] – The [[Politics of the Cook Islands#Constitution|Constitution of Cook Islands]] comes into force, giving the [[Cook Islands]] self-governing status within [[New Zealand]]. | ||
| - | *[[1969]] – [[Vietnam War]]: At the apartment of French intermediary [[Jean Sainteny]] in [[Paris]], American representative [[Henry Kissinger]] and [[North Vietnam]]ese representative [[Xuan Thuy]] begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail. | ||
| - | *[[1974]] – A [[Italicus Express bombing 1974|bomb]] explodes in the ''Italicus Express'' train at [[San Benedetto Val di Sambro]], [[Italy]], killing 12 people and wounding 22. | ||
| - | *[[1975]] – The [[Japanese Red Army]] takes [[1975 AIA building hostage crisis|more than 50 hostages]] at the AIA Building housing several embassies in [[Kuala Lumpur]], [[Malaysia]]. The hostages include the U.S. [[consul]] and the [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[Chargé d'affaires]]. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to [[History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi#Libyan Arab Republic (1969–1977)|Libya]]. | ||
| - | *[[1977]] – [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Jimmy Carter]] signs legislation creating the [[United States Department of Energy]]. | ||
| - | *[[1984]] – The [[Republic of Upper Volta]] changes its name to [[Burkina Faso]]. | ||
| - | *[[1987]] – The [[Federal Communications Commission]] rescinds the [[Fairness Doctrine]] which had required [[radio]] and [[television]] stations to present controversial issues "fairly". | ||
| - | *[[1991]] – The Greek cruise ship {{Ship|MTS|Oceanos}} sinks off the [[Eastern Cape|Wild Coast]] of [[South Africa]]. | ||
| - | *[[1993]] – A [[federal judge]] sentences [[Los Angeles Police Department]] [[Police officer|officer]]s [[Stacey Koon]] and [[Laurence Powell]] to 30 months in prison for violating [[Driving|motorist]] [[Rodney King]]'s [[Civil and political rights|civil rights]]. | ||
| - | *[[1995]] – [[Operation Storm]] begins in [[Croatia]]. | ||
| - | *[[2002]] – [[Soham murders]]: 10-year-old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of [[Soham]], [[Cambridgeshire]], United Kingdom. | ||
| - | *[[2005]] – [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Paul Martin]] announces that [[Michaëlle Jean]] will be [[Canada]]'s 27th [[Governor General of Canada|Governor General]]. | ||
| - | *[[2006]] – A [[2006 Trincomalee massacre of NGO workers|massacre]] is carried out by [[Sri Lanka]]n government forces, killing 17 employees of the French [[International nongovernmental organization|INGO]] [[Action Against Hunger]] (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF). | ||
| - | *[[2007]] – [[NASA]]'s ''[[Phoenix (spacecraft)|Phoenix]]'' spaceship is launched. | ||
| - | *[[2011]] – [[Death of Mark Duggan|Mark Duggan]] is shot and killed by [[Metropolitan Police]] in [[Tottenham]], London, resulting in public protests and eventually [[2011 England riots|four days of riots]]. | ||
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- 70 – The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
- 1944 – The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
- 1958 – The Billboard Hot 100 is published for the first time.
Births
- 1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (d. 1822)
- 1839 - Walter Pater, English essayist, critic and writer (d. 1894)
- 1859 - Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1952)
- 1901 - Louis Armstrong, American musician (d. 1971)
- 1904 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (d. 1969)
- 1945 - Paul McCarthy, American artist
- 1947 - Klaus Schulze, German composer
- 1952 - Franco Saudelli Italian illustrator
Deaths
- 1875 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (b. 1805)
- 1927 - Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget, French photographer (b. 1857)
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