Person report

★16 Aug 1891
The San Sebastian Church in Manila, the only all-steel church in Asia, was officially consecrated.

★30 Aug 1896
Philippine Revolution: In the Battle of San Juan del Monte, the first real battle of the war, a Katipunan force temporarily captured a powder magazine before being beaten back by a Spanish garrison.

★24 Mar 1921
The 1921 Women's Olympiad, the first international women's sports event, opened at the International Sporting Club of Monaco in Monte Carlo.

★07 Aug 1933
Iraqi troops slaughtered 600–3,000 Assyrians during the Simele massacre in the Dahuk and Mosul districts.

★10 Jun 1935
American physician Bob Smith had his last alcoholic drink, marking the traditional founding date of Alcoholics Anonymous.

★27 Aug 1942
Nazi troops and the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police began systematically executing more than 14,000 people, mostly Jews, in and around Sarny in occupied Poland.

★30 Apr 1945
World War II: As Allied forces were closing in on Berlin, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide in the Führerbunker after being married for one day.

★16 Jul 1965
South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo—an undetected communist spy—was reported dead due to injuries sustained during his capture, but it is generally assumed he was tortured to death.

★21 Sep 1968
The Soviet Zond 5 landed in the Indian Ocean, becoming the first spacecraft to safely return to Earth after circling the Moon.

★14 Jun 1971
Emerson, Lake & Palmer released the progressive rock album Tarkus.

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