On this day:
1847: The country of Liberia is founded
1963: Syncom 2, the world’s first geosynchronous communications satellite is launched
1965: Independence of the Maldives from Britain
1999: Fighting ceases between India and Pakistan in the Kargil War, Kashmir, after two months of fighting
Born on this day:
1875: Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist
1856: George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
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