Following the fall of the Umayyads, the city of Baghdad, Iraq, was founded by caliph Al-Mansur the Islamic Ruler.
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Vanuatu gained its independence from the Anglo-French Condominium.
The USS Indianapolis vessel was torpedoed and sunk.
Former US Army Private Chelsea Manning was convicted on 17 espionage charges.
NASA's Apollo 15 Lunar mission landed on the Moon's surface with the first Lunar Rover.
17-year-old Neville Ebbin was riding his electric cycle down a stretch of road in Bermuda when he was hit and killed by a taxi driver named Willard Manders.