1814 – Napoleon arrives to his exile in Elba Island.
1904 – Work of digging the Panama Canal starts.
1924 – Olympic summer games opened in Paris.
1945 – German forces surrender to British Field Marshal Montgomery during the World War II.
1970 – American students stage a strike in protest against US invasion of Cambodia.
1993 – U.N. peacekeeping force replace the multi-national forces in “Restoring Hope” process in Somalia.
Born Today:
1958 – American artist Keith Haring.
Passed away:
1972 – American chemist and Nobel-Laureate Edward Kendall.
Occasions:
World Traffic Day.
H. Zain/ Barry