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TODAY S HIGHLIGHT
1968: The first International Special Olympics Summer Games, organised by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, are held in Chicago.
1810: Bogota rises against Spanish rule. The day is now Independence Day in Colombia.
1811: The Rev Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a hero of independence, is executed by firing squad in Chihuahua, Mexico.
1861: Congress of the southern Confederate States convened in Richmond, Virginia, after seceding from the US.
1871: British Columbia enters Confederation as a Canadian province.
1880: The second British invasion of Afghanistan ends; Abdur Rahman proclaims himself the new Afghan ruler.
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