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South Vietnamese special forces loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, the brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm, raided and vandalised Buddhist pagodas (one pictured) across the country, arresting thousands and leaving�
James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, and claims the east coast of Australia for Britain as New South Wales.
Jang Hyun-kyu, South Korean footballer (died 2012)
Park Chan-wook, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter
John Cockburn, Scottish-Australian politician, 18th Premier of South Australia (died 1929)
Buddhist crisis: The U.S. State Department ordered Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (pictured) to encourage South Vietnamese Army officers to oust Ngo Dinh Diem if he did not willingly remove Ngo Dinh�
American fur trapper Hugh Glass is mauled by a grizzly bear while on an expedition in South Dakota.
Jung Jung-suk, South Korean footballer (died 2011)
Alexander Mair, Australian politician, 26th Premier of New South Wales (died 1969)
Maxwell D. Taylor, American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to South Vietnam (died 1987)
After a ceasefire was reached in the Russo-Georgian War, Russia recognized the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
South Korean presidential election: After successfully staging the Coup d'état of May Seventeenth, General Chun Doo-hwan, running unopposed, has the National Conference for Unification elect him Presi�
South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh enters into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Trần Thiện Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, who had both been involved in plots to unseat Kh�