Today in History

1912 - Montenegro declares war on Turkey.

1932 - The Indian Air Force is established.

1955 - The US aircraft carrier USS Saratoga is launched.

1962 - Uganda becomes an independent nation within the British Commonwealth.

1967 - Che Guevara, a Marxist revolutionary is captured.

1982 - Poland bans Solidarity and all labour unions. 1996 - Yasser Arafat makes his

first public visit to Israel.

2001 - An SAS airliner taking off for Denmark from Milan, Italy, hits a private jet and explodes, killing all 114 on both planes and four on the ground.

2012 - West Indies wins the ICC World Twenty20 after beating Sri Lanka in the final.

2013 - Egypt orders removal of Muslim Brotherhood from the list of approved nongovernmental organisations.