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The Titan submersible imploded during a dive to the RMS Titanic wreck, killing all five people aboard.
2012
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was appointed the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.
2012
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was appointed the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.
1983
Iranian teenager Mona Mahmudnizhad and nine other women were hanged in Shiraz because of their membership in the Baháʼí Faith.
1983
Aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman and third one overall in space.
1972
British European Airways Flight 548 crashed near Staines-upon-Thames less than three minutes after departing from Heathrow Airport in London, killing all 118 people aboard in the worst air accident in the UK.
1954
Carlos Castillo Armas led a CIA-sponsored invasion force across the Guatemalan border, beginning the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
1953
A Douglas C-124 Globemaster II aircraft crashed just after takeoff from Tachikawa, Japan, killing all 129 people on board.
1953
A Douglas C-124 Globemaster II aircraft crashed just after takeoff from Tachikawa, Japan, killing all 129 people on board.
1940
World War II: Charles de Gaulle gave his Appeal of 18 June speech, often considered to be the origin of the French Resistance.