1881 Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to US federal troops.
1914 Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster.
1917 WW I draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn.
1941 The Guinea Pig Club forms, made of severely injured airmen treated by Archibald McIndoe at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, England.
1944 Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German army officer Claus Von Stauffenberg.
1944 Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sunk by US air attack.
1969 Apollo 11 lunar module carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin lands on the surface of the Moon; Aldrin and Armstrong walk on the moon seven hours later; Michael Collins remains in orbit in the lunar module.
1994 Alexander Lukashenko is inaugurated as the first president of Belarus.
1994 Supreme Leader of North-Korea, Kim Il-sung is placed in a public Mausoleum at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun.
2000 Terrorist Carlos the Jackal sues France in the European Court of Human Rights for allegedly torturing him.
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