This day in history:
- 2016 – Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen during an anti-police protest in downtown Dallas, Texas, killing five of them. He is subsequently killed by a robot-delivered bomb.
- 1585 – The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
- 2013 – A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.
- 1930 – Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
Births:
- 1899 – George Cukor, American director and producer (d. 1983)
- 1880 – Otto Frederick Rohwedder, American engineer, invented sliced bread (d. 1960)
- 1851 – Charles Albert Tindley, American minister and composer (d. 1933)
Deaths:
- 1713 – Henry Compton, English bishop (b. 1632)
- 2021 – Dilip Kumar, Indian film actor (b. 1922)
- 1913 – Edward Burd Grubb Jr., American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Spain (b. 1841)
Holidays:
- Ivan Kupala Day (Belarus, Poland, Russia, Ukraine)
- World Chocolate Day
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Solomon Islands from the United Kingdom in 1978.
Random Article of the day:
Crescent Township, Iroquois County, Illinois
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