1889- Montana territory was admitted as the 41st state of the Unites States.
1901- Bloody clashes take place in Athens after translating the Bible into the popular Greek language.
1960- John Kennedy was elected as president of the US.
1965- Abolition of death penalty in Britain.
1973- Syrian warplanes and air defense system shoot down 35 Israeli warplanes , arrest 6 Israeli pilots in October Liberation War.
2005- Declaration of a state of emergency in France after a series of riots in Paris’ suburbs.
1656- British Astronomer Edmund Halley born.
1953- Russian Poet and Nobel Prize laureate Ivan Bunin passes away.
World Urbanism Day
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