EVENTS:
- 1806 – The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
- 1890 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
- 1913 – Death Valley, California, hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
- 1925 – Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
- 1938 – Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world.
- 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
- 1962 – Telstar, the world’s first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
- 1973 – The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1980 – Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time.
- 1991 – The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
- 2000 – EADS, the world’s second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
- 2015 – The opening ceremony for the 2015 Pan American Games takes place in Toronto.
- 2016 – Portugal beat France in the UEFA Euro 2016 Final.
- 2017 – Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
- 2018 – Tham Luang cave rescue: A group of Thai school children and their football coach are all rescued from a cave after being stuck there for 18 days; one Thai Navy SEAL diver dies during the rescue mission.
- 2019 – The final Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico; the last of 5,961 “Special Edition” cars will be exhibited in a museum.
BIRTHS:
- 1902 – Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
- 1920 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
- 1923 – G. A. Kulkarni, Indian author (d. 1987)
- 1940 – Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, Indian-English economist and politician
- 1949 – Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricketer
- 1964 – Urban Meyer, American football player and coach
- 1976 – Edmílson, Brazilian footballer
- 1976 – Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
- 1976 – Brendon Lade, Australian footballer and coach
- 1983 – Matthew Egan, Australian footballer
- 1984 – Manjari Phadnis, Indian actress
- 1990 – Adam Reynolds, Australian rugby player
- 2002 – Reece Walsh, Australian rugby league player
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