Today:
1876 – The Battle of Little Bighorn, also known as Custer’s Last Stand, took place during the Great Sioux War.
1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank was published.
1950 – The Korean War began with North Korean forces invading South Korea.
1975 – Mozambique gained independence from Portugal.
1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence from Yugoslavia.
1997 – An unmanned Progress spacecraft collided with the Russian space station Mir.
1998 – Microsoft released Windows 98.
2006 – Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier, was captured by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid from the Gaza Strip.
2009 – Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop,” died at the age of 50.
2018 – A terrorist attack on a Hindu temple in Quetta, Pakistan, killed at least three people.