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Boris Johnson announces his resignation as leader of the Conservative Party following days of pressure from the Members of Parliament (MPs) during the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis.

2022

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Haitian crisis: Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is assassinated in his residence in the capital of Port-au-Prince.

2021

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The United States defeated the Netherlands 2–0 at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup final in Lyon, France.

2019

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The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted with 122 countries voting in favour.

2017

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Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen, killing five of them, in downtown Dallas, Texas at the end of a protest of recent police killings of Black men. He is subsequently killed by a robot-delivered bomb.

2016

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A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.

2013

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At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.

2012

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A man goes on a killing spree in Grand Rapids, Michigan, killing 7 and wounding 2 before killing himself.

2011

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The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world.

2007

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A shootout happens in Spiritwood, Canada, killing 2 Royal Canadian Mounted Police and wounding a 3rd officer.

2006

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A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others.

2005

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NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.

2003

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The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.

1997

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The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.

1992

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Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

1991

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Boris Becker becomes the youngest male player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17.

1985

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Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.

1983

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US President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.

1981

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Institution of sharia law in Iran.

1980

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During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.

1980

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The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

1978

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Buddhist crisis: Police commanded by Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest.

1963

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Alitalia Flight 771 crashes in Junnar, Maharashtra, India, killing 94 people.

1962

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Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.

1959

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US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.

1958

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Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.

1953

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The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.

1952

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Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.

1946

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Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.

1946

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World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.

1944

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The US occupation of Iceland replaces the UK's occupation.

1941

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The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (Lugou Bridge) provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War (China-Japan War).

1937

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The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.

1937

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Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).

1930

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The Finnish far-right Lapua Movement organises the Peasant March demonstration in Helsinki to put pressure on the government to prohibit communist activities.

1930

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Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.

1928

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The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.

1916

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The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.

1915

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Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.

1915

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The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.

1911

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Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.

1907

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The luxury racing yacht Idler capsizes and sinks on Lake Erie during a storm, drowning six of its seven passengers (all members of the family of Cleveland businessman James C. Corrigan).

1900

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US president William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution, annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.

1898

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The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.

1892

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Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.

1865

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The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.

1863

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US troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the US conquest of California.

1846

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In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.

1834

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The first Treaty of Tilsit between France and Russia is signed, ending hostilities between the two countries in the War of the Fourth Coalition.

1807

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As a result of the XYZ Affair, the US Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the "Quasi-War".

1798

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American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.

1777

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The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.

1770

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After three days of battle around Chesma, the Russian fleet defeats the Ottoman Navy, inflicting one of the most severe naval defeats on the Ottoman Empire since Lepanto.

1770

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An English fleet completes the destruction of a French merchant fleet off Fort St Pierre, Martinique during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

1667

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The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.

1585

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The Raid of the Redeswire is the last major battle between England and Scotland.

1575

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Scotland and France conclude the Treaty of Haddington in response to the war known as the "Rough Wooing". According to the treaty, the five-year old Mary, Queen of Scots, is to marry the Dauphin of France.

1548

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Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada.

1534

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Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.

1520

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A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution.

1456

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The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.

1124

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