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★29 Dec 1928
The Northern Expedition, a military campaign by the National Revolutionary Army of the Kuomintang, ended with the complete control of the Republic of China.

★17 Jul 1936
Nationalist rebels attempted a coup d'état against the Second Spanish Republic, sparking the Spanish Civil War.

★09 Mar 1956
In Tbilisi, Georgia, Soviet military troops suppressed mass demonstrations against Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.

★11 Jun 1956
The six-day Gal Oya riots, the first ethnic riots targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils in post-independent Sri Lanka, began, eventually resulting in the deaths of at least 150 people and 100 injuries.

★03 Jun 1969
During a SEATO exercise HMAS Melbourne of the Royal Australian Navy collided with the U.S. Navy's USS Frank E. Evans, cutting the latter in two.

★29 Jun 1974
Isabel Perón was sworn in as the first female President of Argentina, replacing her ill husband Juan Perón, who died two days later.

★28 Jun 1978
In Regents of the Univ. of Cal. v. Bakke, the U.S. Supreme Court barred quota systems in college admissions but declared that affirmative action programs giving advantage to minorities are constitutional.

★07 Jun 1981
The Israeli Air Force attacked and disabled the Osirak nuclear reactor, assuming it was producing plutonium to further an Iraqi nuclear weapons program.

★08 Jan 1991
Jeremy Wade Delle committed suicide in front of his class in Richardson, Texas, inspiring the Pearl Jam song "Jeremy".

★14 Dec 1992
War in Abkhazia: During the Siege of Tkvarcheli, a helicopter carrying evacuees from Tkvarcheli was shot down, resulting in at least 52 deaths, which catalysed more concerted Russian military intervention on behalf of Abkhazia.

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