Australian politician Julia Gillard was sworn in as Australia‘s first female prime minister. 2010 

Russia invaded by Napoleon and his Grand Army

On this day in 1812, French Emperor Napoleon—who had massed his troops in Poland in the spring to intimidate Russian Tsar Alexander I—and 600,000 troops of his Grand Army launched an ill-fated invasion of Russia. 1812 

One of the greatest sportsman, Lionel Andres Messi was born on this day in 1987. 

American businessman Kenneth Arnold saw a number of objects “flying like saucers” while piloting a small plane over Mount Rainier in Washington; it was considered the first modern sighting of UFOs and gave rise to the term flying saucer. 1947 

The Berlin blockade intensified when the Soviet Union announced that the Western Allied powers no longer had any rights in Berlin. 1948.