1940: Battle of Britain begins as Nazi forces attack shipping convoys in the English Channel
1985: French foreign intelligence agents blow up the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor, New Zealand, to prevent it from interfering with French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira is killed.
1991: Boris Yeltsin is sworn in as the first elected President of the Russian Federation
2012: The American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages
Source: Onthisday.com
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