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Juneteenth, officially Juneteenth National Independence Day, is a federal holiday in the United States. It is celebrated…

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Ali Hosseini Khamenei is an Iranian cleric and politician who has served as the second supreme leader of Iran since 1989…

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On This Day

10 events
2019
Iranian aircraft shot down an American drone over the Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions between the two countries.
2009
Iranian student Neda Agha-Soltan was shot dead in Tehran during the presidential election protests; footage of her death was widely distributed over the Internet, making it "probably the most widely witnessed death in human history".
1994
A bomb explosion in the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, Iran, left at least 25 dead and more than 70 injured.
1982
The International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, the first major conference in genocide studies, opened despite Turkish attempts to cancel it due to the inclusion of presentations on the Armenian genocide.
1979
Bill Stewart, an American journalist, was executed by Nicaraguan Guardia forces.
1975
Steven Spielberg's film Jaws was released; it became a summer blockbuster and the first film to earn $100 million in U.S. theatrical rentals.
1960
The Mali Federation gained independence from France, but dissolved into Mali and Senegal two months later.
1959
The extratropical remnants of an Atlantic hurricane reached the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada, causing 22 fishing boats to capsize and killing 35 people.
1947
A Mafia hitman murdered gangster Bugsy Siegel, one of the driving forces in the development of the Las Vegas Strip, in Beverly Hills, California.
1943
World War II: The Royal Air Force began Operation Bellicose, a four-day shuttle-bombing mission that included raids on Germany and Italy and a refuelling and rearming stop in Algeria.

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