On this day in 1983, thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo were massacred by Sinhalese prisoners. The incident was later called “Black July”.
On this day in 1993, Israel launched a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis called Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese called the Seven-Day War.
On this day in 2000, Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashed at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 passengers.
On this day in 2010, WikiLeaks published classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.