1592 – Battle of Sacheon: Korean navy led by Admiral Yi Sun Shin repels a Japanese fleet – first use of Korean Turtle ship
1954 – First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
1967 – Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who later became Pope John Paul II
1986 – 59th National Spelling Bee: Jon Pennington wins spelling odontalgia
1988 – Pakistan President Zia ul-Haq dismisses government and disbands parliament
1991 – “Les Miserables” opens at Aotea Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand
1994 – “Picnic” closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
2012 – A 5.9 magnitude earthquake kills 24 people near Bologna, northern Italy
2012 – Facebook’s problematic public listing could cost those involved $115 million from technical glitches
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