Around 1,000 prisoners escaped from Queyfiya Prison in Benghazi, Libya.
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Queen Elizabeth II of England declared the 30th Olympics opened in London, UK.
The Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War was signed in Geneva, Switzerland.
NASA decided to suspend space shuttle flights after analyzing the launch of mission STS-114.
Billboard magazine started ranking sales of recorded songs.
Vincent van Gogh shot himself at a wheat field in Auvers-Sur-Oise, France, and died from his wounds two days later.
