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A Tajik citizen with ISIS connections, wanted in Tajikistan for murder and kidnapping, kills two people at Chișinău International Airport in Moldova, after being denied entry to the country.

2023

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The Tiger Fire ignites near Black Canyon City, Arizona, and goes on to burn 16,278 acres (6,587 ha) of land before being fully contained on July 30.

2021

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The Hong Kong National Security Law is passed by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and immediately comes into effect after gazettal.

2020

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Donald Trump becomes the first sitting US President to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).

2019

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A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in a residential area in Medan, Indonesia, resulting in at least 116 deaths.

2015

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Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona.

2013

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Protests begin around Egypt against President Mohamed Morsi and the ruling Freedom and Justice Party, leading to their overthrow during the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état.

2013

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Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310-300, crashes into the Indian Ocean near Comoros, killing 152 of the 153 people on board. A 14-year-old girl named Bahia Bakari survives the crash.

2009

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A Jeep Cherokee filled with propane canisters drives into the entrance of Glasgow Airport, Scotland in a failed terrorist attack. This was linked to the 2007 London car bombs that had taken place the day before.

2007

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An Airbus A330-300 crashes during a test flight at Toulouse–Blagnac Airport, killing all seven people on board.

1994

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Malta is officially subdivided into 68 local councils by the Local Councils Act.

1993

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East and West Germany merge their economies.

1990

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A coup d'état in Sudan deposes the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and President Ahmed al-Mirghani.

1989

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The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.

1986

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Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.

1985

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The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.

1977

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The Baltimore municipal strike of 1974 begins.

1974

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Concorde 001 intercepts the path of a total solar eclipse and follows the moon's shadow, experiencing the longest total eclipse observation.

1973

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The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.

1972

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The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.

1971

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Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God.

1968

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The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded.

1966

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Ciaculli bombing: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police officers and military personnel near Palermo.

1963

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Belgian Congo gains independence as Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).

1960

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A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood.

1959

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A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both airliners.

1956

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The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.

1953

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World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.

1944

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The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.

1937

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Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion of his country.

1936

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The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.

1934

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In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes–Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.

1922

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U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.

1921

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World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.

1916

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The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan.

1912

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The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia.

1908

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The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.

1906

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Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.

1905

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A savage fire wrecked three steamships docked at a pier in Hoboken, New Jersey. Over 200 crew members and passengers are killed, and hundreds injured.

1900

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The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1892

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The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.

1886

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Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.

1882

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Serbia declares war on the Ottoman Empire, leading to the Serbian Wars for Independence.

1876

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U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation".

1864

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The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.

1860

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French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.

1859

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Under An act to divide the Indiana Territory into two separate governments, adopted by the U.S. Congress on January 11, 1805, the Michigan Territory is organized.

1805

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Northwest Indian War: Native American forces under Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery.

1794

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Seven Years' War: Habsburg Austrian forces destroy a Prussian reinforcement and supply convoy in the Battle of Domstadtl, helping to expel Prussian King Frederick the Great from Moravia.

1758

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The Battle of Ekeren between a Dutch force and a French force.

1703

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A Williamite army under Godert de Ginkell takes the city of Athlone from the Jacobites after a short siege.

1691

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The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William, which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.

1688

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The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising: The Battle of Berestechko ends with a Polish victory.

1651

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Royalists loyal to King Charles I led by the Earl of Newcastle defeat Parliamentarian troops commanded by Lord Fairfax in the battle of Adwalton Moor, allowing them to capture Bradford and Leeds.

1643

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The University of Tartu is founded.

1632

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The Spanish-held Castillo San Felipe del Morro in San Juan, Puerto Rico having been besieged for fifteen days, surrenders to an English force under Sir George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland.

1598

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King Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting match against Gabriel, comte de Montgomery.

1559

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Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre.

1521

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Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.

1422

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Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne to the Ming dynasty to become the Jianwen Emperor.

1398

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The Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus.

763

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Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy.

296

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