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A bomb explodes on a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 25 people and wounding 22 others.

The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people.

The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the United States to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the United States for trial, without approval from those other countries.

In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, killing over 800 people.

After the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, the first democratic elections take place in Spain.

Cathay Pacific Flight 700Z is destroyed by a bomb over Pleiku, Vietnam (then South Vietnam) and kills 81 people.

World War II: The United States invades Saipan, capital of Japan's South Seas Mandate.

In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.

World War II: Operation Aerial begins: Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.

Following the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, Northern Schleswig is transferred from Germany to Denmark.

American jazz drummer

New Zealand cricket batsman (81 Tests

French soprano

American cyclist

American actress (Valentina)

American singer (Seduction - "Two To Make It Right")

German soccer goalkeeper (86 caps; Bayern Munich 429 games)

American playwright and author (Red Light Winter)

American model

South Korean actor (Oldboy

born in Lac-à-la-Tortue

American politician (D-Wash)

Belgian rower (Olympic silver 1992

American actress (Donna Logan in "The Bold and the Beautiful")

Danish soccer forward (104 caps; Lazio