the first Slovenian camp is held in Ljutomer.
In 1936 American track and field athlete Jesse Owens achieved international fame by winning four gold medals in the Summer Olympics in Berlin.
In 1945, the Americans dropped another atomic bomb, this time on Nagasaki. It claimed 40,000 lives and as many were wounded. The Japanese announced the next day that they are prepared to negotiate.
In 1957 actress Melanie Griffith is born.
In 1962 Swiss poet Herman Hesse, who in his youth wrote wistful, lyrical expressive works, dies. Under the influence of psychoanalysis and war turmoil in his work Steppenwolf showed the crisis of the western spirit.
In 1974 Gerald Ford is declared the 38. President of the United States of America.
MUSIC HISTORY
1967 - Scott McKenzie is at the top of the British singles chart with 'San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair).'
1975 - The Bee Gees are at the top of the American singles chart with 'Jive Talkin'.
1980 - AC/DC is at the top of the British albums chart with 'Back In Black', which they dedicated to the tragic death of singer Bob Scott.
BORN ON THIS DAY
1939 - Billy Henderson, singer in the group The Detroit Spinners (1980 'Working My Way Back To You').
1963 – singer Whitney Houston (1985 'Saving All My Love For You'). Houston died in 2012.