This day in history:
- 1882 – Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
- 1952 – King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.
- 1944 – World War II: The Red Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
- 1579 – Francis Drake, the English explorer, discovers a "fair and good" bay on the coast of the Pacific Northwest (probably Oregon or Washington).
Births:
- 1928 – Don Beauman, English race car driver (d. 1955)
- 1983 – Delonte West, American basketball player
- 1986 – John White, English footballer
Deaths:
- 2013 – Sung Jae-gi, South Korean philosopher and activist (b. 1967)
- 1925 – William Jennings Bryan, American lawyer and politician, 41st United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)
- 2011 – Tom Borton, American jazz saxophonist, songwriter and composer (b. 1956)
Holidays:
- Emancipation Day (Barbados)
- Day of the National Rebellion (Cuba)
- Independence Day (Liberia), celebrates the independence of Liberia from the American Colonization Society in 1847.
Random Article of the day:
2013 BWF World Junior Championships – Team event group stage
This article lists the complete results of the group stage of the 2013 BWF World Junior Championships – Teams event in Bangkok, Thailand.
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