On this date

during World War I, the First Battle of the Marne ended in an Allied victory against Germany.

Adolf Hitler demanded the right of selfdetermination for the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia.

Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, R.I.

Emperor Haile Selassie was deposed by Ethiopia’s military after ruling for 58 years.

South African black student leader Steve Biko died while in police custody, triggering an international outcry.

the Belarusian military shot down a hydrogen balloon during an international race, killing its two American pilots, John Stuart-Jervis and Alan Fraenckel.

Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first first lady to win an election as she claimed victory in the New York Democratic Senate primary, defeating little-known opponent Mark McMahon.

In a speech in his native Germany, Pope Benedict XVI said Islamic holy war was against God’s nature and quoted a 14th-century Byzantine emperor, Manuel II Paleologos, as characterizing some teachings of Islam’s founder as “evil and inhuman”; the pope’s comments unleashed a torrent of rage across the Islamic world, prompting him to say he sincerely regretted that Muslims were offended.

A leaking gasoline pipeline in Kenya’s capital exploded, killing 119 people, according to the Kenya Red Cross.

Jeremy Corbyn, a veteran anti-war campaigner known for his unapologetically socialist views, won a landslide victory to lead Britain’s opposition Labor Party in one of the country’s biggest political shakeups in decades.