1967 – National Day in Gibraltar
1798 – At the Battle of St. George's Caye, a small force of British settlers called Baymen defeated an invading force from Mexico who were attempting to claim what is now Belize for Spain.
1897 – A peaceful labor demonstrationmade up of mostly Polish and Slovak anthracite coalminers in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA, was fired upon by a sheriff's posse comitatus in the Lattimer Massacre.
1898 – In an act of "propaganda of the deed", Italiananarchist Luigi Lucheni fatally stabbed Empress Elisabeth of Austria (pictured) in Geneva, Switzerland.
1945 – Mike the Headless Chicken was decapitated in a farm in Colorado; he survived another 18 months as part of sideshows before choking to death in Phoenix,Arizona.
1977 – Hamida Djandoubi became the last person to beguillotined in France, the official method of execution in that country. France would later abolish the death penalty in 1981.
1990 – Pope John Paul II consecrated the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, one of the largest churches in the world.
1897 – A peaceful labor demonstrationmade up of mostly Polish and Slovak anthracite coalminers in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA, was fired upon by a sheriff's posse comitatus in the Lattimer Massacre.
1898 – In an act of "propaganda of the deed", Italiananarchist Luigi Lucheni fatally stabbed Empress Elisabeth of Austria (pictured) in Geneva, Switzerland.
1945 – Mike the Headless Chicken was decapitated in a farm in Colorado; he survived another 18 months as part of sideshows before choking to death in Phoenix,Arizona.
1977 – Hamida Djandoubi became the last person to beguillotined in France, the official method of execution in that country. France would later abolish the death penalty in 1981.
1990 – Pope John Paul II consecrated the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, one of the largest churches in the world.
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