Today in HistoryThis day in history:
- 1971 – Bahrain declares independence from Britain.
- 1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is shot and killed by a Turkish security officer while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
- 1920 – The 1920 Summer Olympics, having started four months earlier, officially open in Antwerp, Belgium, with the newly adopted Olympic flag and the Olympic oath being raised and taken at the Opening Ceremony for the first time in Olympic history.
- 1183 – Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan.
Births:
- 1961 – Susan Olsen, American actress and radio host
- 1991 – Giovanny Gallegos, Mexican baseball player
- 1963 – José Cóceres, Argentinian golfer
Deaths:
- 2015 – Bob Johnston, American songwriter and producer (b. 1932)
- 2003 – Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)
- 2014 – Leonard Fein, American journalist and academic, co-founded Moment Magazine (b. 1934)
Holidays:
- National Navajo Code Talkers Day is a holiday in the United States honoring Navajo code talkers in the military.
- Falklands Day is the celebration of the first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis in 1592.
- Independence Day celebrates the independence of Pakistan from the United Kingdom in 1947.
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