1915 German cruiser Königsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam.
1940 Marshall Philippe Petain, French hero of World War I, becomes head of the Vichy collaborationist government of France.
1943 7th day of battle at Kursk.
1969 David Bowie releases the single "Space Oddity" 9 days before Apollo 11 lands on the moon.
1995 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men are massacred when Bosnian Serbs overrun the UN 'safe haven' of Srebrenica.
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