On this day in 1937, the Battle of Shanghai between China and Japan began.
On this day in 1954, Radio Pakistan broadcast the "Qaumī Tarāna", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
On this day in 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts were released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York.
And on this day in 1978, 150 Palestinians in Beirut were killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.