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1940 - The Battle of Britain began in World War Two when at least 70 German bombers attacked docks in south Wales.
1943 - Allied invasion of Sicily in World War Two.
1985 - One Greenpeace crew member died when the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior was blown up and sunk by French secret agents in Auckland harbour in New Zealand.
1991 - Boris Yeltsin was sworn in as the first elected president of Russia.
1995 - Actor Hugh Grant makes first public appearance after arrest for lewd conduct.
1995 - Burmese dissident leader Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest after nearly six years in detention.
2000 - At least 202 people were killed in the Philippines when a mountain of garbage collapsed on a Manila shantytown called Promised Land.
2001 - A drawing by Leonardo da Vinci sold at Christie's auction house for a world record price for the artist's work of 8.1 million pounds ($11.4 million).
2002 - A long-lost painting by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, "The Massacre of the Innocents", set a world record as the most expensive painting ever sold at auction in pounds sterling. It went for 49.5 million pounds ($77 million).
2006 - Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev, Russia's most wanted man, was killed.
2017 - Iraq announces victory over Islamic State in Mosul.
