This day in history

Approximately 300 people are killed as Indian troops storm the Golden Temple in Amritsar, which is held by Sikh militants.
 

Israel launches the Operation Peace of the Galilee, the invasion of Southern Lebanon.
 

In Israel, Palestinian Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti is sentenced to five terms of life in prison for his role in attacks that killed five people since 2001.
 

The Soviet Union launch Soyuz 11, the first successful space flight to the world's first space station.

In America, Black civil rights activist James Meredith is shot and wounded after entering Mississippi on a civil rights march.
 

The future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway marries Sophia of Nassau in Germany.
 

The world's first public museum, the Ashmolean, is opened by Elias Ashmole in Oxford, England.