On this day:
1960: Baghdad Conference Begins ending with the creation of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
2008: Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle collider, goes live
2014: First Invictus Games, the international games which bring together wounded armed forces personnel and veterans, held
Born on this day:
1839: Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher, mathematician, scientist
1872: Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer
1941: Stephen Jay Gould, American palaeontologist
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