1786- The arrival of traveler Jean Palma to the top of the Alps.
1815 _ Napoleon Bonaparte leaves France to his exile in Saint Helena.
1918- Protests in Japan named “Rice Riots”.
1945- The Soviet Union declares war on Japan.
1953- The Soviet Union declares that it has a hydrogen bomb.
1974- US President Richard Nixon resigns in the wake of the Watergate scandal.
Born Today:
1902- British physicist Paul Dirac.
1937- American actor Dustin Hoffman.
Passed away:
1827- British Prime Minister George Canning.
1977- British doctor and Nobel Prize Laureate Edgar Adrian.
Occasions:
Father’s Day in Taiwan.
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