EVENTS:
- 1819 – Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
- 1825 – Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
- 1845 – The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- 1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1964 – Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world’s oldest tree, is cut down.
- 1976 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
- 1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
- 1997 – Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam. (228 died, 26 lived).
- 2010 – Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.
- 2015 – A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the south-western Saudi city of Abha.
BIRTHS:
- 1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
- 1911 – Norman Gordon, South African cricketer
- 1933 – A. G. Kripal Singh, Indian cricketer (d. 1987)
- 1947 – Tony Dell, English-Australian cricketer
- 1953 – Iqbal Qasim, Pakistani cricketer
- 1959 – Rajendra Singh, Indian conservationist
- 1965 – Vince Wells, England cricketer
- 1969 – Simon Doull, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster
- 1971 – Piyal Wijetunge, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1984 – Jesse Ryder, New Zealand cricketer
- 1987 – Aditya Narayan, Indian actor and singer
- 1985 – Bafétimbi Gomis, French footballer
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES:
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony (Hiroshima, Japan)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bolivia from Spain in 1825.
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Jamaica from the United Kingdom in 1962.
- The beginning of Tanabata festival. (Sendai, Japan)
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