1996 Ottawa rocker Alanis Morrissette performs eight songs from her hit album Jagged Little Pill before 150,000 people in London's Hyde Park

1943 During World War 2, American forces land in New Guinea

1971 The Soyuz 11 spacecraft docked with the Salyut 1 spacestation for 22 days

1577 The birth of Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish artist

1868 The birth of George Hale, American astronomer

2006 The Dutch cabinet Balkenende II resigns after the political party of D'66 drops its support.

2006 Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The United States Supreme Court rules that the military commissions to be used to try some detainees in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp are illegal.

2006 Women vote for the first time in elections for the National Assembly of Kuwait.

2007 British police defuse a bomb in Haymarket, Central London.[18]

2007 Apple's new iPhone is released in the US

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