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★29 Jun 1914
During the second day of the anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo, numerous buildings owned by ethnic Serbs were vandalized and looted.

★09 Aug 1934
The Blue Lotus, the fifth volume of The Adventures of Tintin by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé and noted for its emphasis on countering negative misconceptions of Chinese people, began serialisation.

★21 Jun 1942
Second World War: The Panzerarmee Afrika soundly defeated an Allied force in the Battle of Gazala in Libya, considered the greatest victory of Erwin Rommel's career.

★16 Dec 1942
World War II: Americans engaged Imperial Japanese forces at the Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse in the hills near the Matanikau River area on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign.

★10 Oct 1943
World War II: The Kenpeitai, the military police arm of the Imperial Japanese Army, arrested and tortured fifty-seven civilians and civilian internees on suspicion of their involvement in a raid on Singapore Harbour during Operation Jaywick.

★25 Nov 1947
McCarthyism: Executives from movie studios agreed to blacklist ten screenwriters and directors who were jailed for refusing to give testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee.

★30 Jun 1972
The International Time Bureau added the first leap second to the Coordinated Universal Time time scale.

★21 Apr 1975
Vietnam War: The town of Xuân Lộc fell after a last stand, prompting Nguyễn Văn Thiệu to resigned as President of South Vietnam.

★09 Mar 1977
Twelve gunmen seized three buildings in Washington, D.C., and took 149 hostages in a 39-hour standoff that ended in two deaths.

★07 Mar 1985
The charity single "We Are the World" by the supergroup United Support of Artists for Africa was released, and would go on to sell more than 20 million copies.

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