This Day In History
- 2012 The pageant for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II takes place on the River Thames.
- 2019 Canadian government inquiry find deaths of over 1,000 indigenous women and girls over decades who have been murdered or are missing a "national genocide".
- Education
- 1907 Centro Escolar University is established by Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna in Manila, Philippines.
- Military
- 2013 The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland. She was convicted and sentenced to 35 years in prison, later commuted to 7 years by President Barack Obama.
- Science
- 1948 The 200-inch reflecting Hale Telescope at the Palomar Mountain Observatory in California was dedicated. In 1965, astronomer Vera Rubin became the first woman to use the telescope in her own name (rather than assisting a man). Best known for her work on the motions of stars in galaxies and the clustering of galaxies in the Universe, Vera's research provided strong evidence for the existence of dark matter.
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