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• ... that due to shifting political winds, the production of the F-20 Tigershark (pictured) for the Taiwanese Air Force failed to start on three separate occasions?
• ... that Dactylosaurus lived in the Middle Triassic period during the Anisian faunal stage of central Europe?
• ... that in February 1428, President of Catalonia Felip de Malla wrote a letter to King Alfonso V describing an earthquake that had struck Barcelona?
• ... that 19th-century archaeologist Isaiah Deck proposed pulping linen from Egyptian mummies into paper, to meet a paper shortage in America?
• ... that the partition of a uterine septum can extend caudally and result in a double vagina?
• ... that in 1985, molecular biologist Richard A. Houghten developed the "tea-bag" method for peptide selection?
• ... that Ad exstirpanda, promulgated in May 1252 by Pope Innocent IV, authorized the use of torture by the Inquisition for the purpose of eliciting confessions from alleged heretics?
• ... that the inspiration for the 2001 horror film Texas Night Train was the song "Moppin' the Floor with My Baby's Head"?
  

• Weekend cross-strait charter flights (pictured) between Taiwan and Mainland China resume after 59 years.
• Íngrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages are rescued by the Colombian government after being held captive by FARC guerillas.
• A Palestinian man drives a front-end loader into several vehicles in Jerusalem, killing three before being shot dead.
• A four-day state of emergency is declared in Mongolia after violent protests follow the legislative elections.
• Thousands of Chinese riot in Guizhou, targeting local government buildings and officials over an alleged police cover-up of the death of a teenage girl.
• Robert Mugabe is sworn in for his sixth term as President of Zimbabwe after a controversial run-off presidential election in which opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew his candidacy due to election-related violence.

July 5: Independence Day in Venezuela (1811), Algeria (1962) and Cape Verde (1975); Saints Cyril and Methodius Day in the Czech Republic and Slovakia; Tynwald Day on the Isle of Man

• 1687 – Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton (pictured) was first published, describing his laws of motion and his law of universal gravitation.
• 1946 – Named after Bikini Atoll, the site of the nuclear weapons test Operation Crossroads in the Marshall Islands, the modern bikini was introduced at a fashion show in Paris.
• 1950 – The Israeli Knesset enacted the Law of Return, granting Jews around the world the right to migrate to and settle in Israel and gain citizenship.
• 1977 – General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq overthrew Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan in a military coup d'état.
• 2004 – Indonesia held its first direct presidential elections in its history; Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono would later be elected president during the second round of the elections on September 20.

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