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• ...that Jacques-Louis David produced four slightly different versions of Napoleon Crossing the Alps (pictured) between 1800 and 1805?
• ...that the Bangalore Palace in India, which was built to resemble Windsor Castle in England, has hosted music concerts of bands like Aerosmith, Rolling Stones and Deep Purple?
• ...that Jeroen Straathof is the first and still only sports person in the world to represent his country at the Summer Olympics, the Winter Olympics and the Paralympics?
• ...that Lynn Visson, a United Nations conference interpreter, is also a Russian cuisine cookbook author?
• ... that Romanian poet, dissident, and journalist Dorin Tudoran was only allowed to leave Romania for the United States after a 42-day-long hunger strike in 1985?
• ...that the Land of Onias, a region in Ptolemaic Egypt settled by Jewish military colonists, had its own Temple separate from that of Jerusalem?

• ...that the White Building in Bloomington, Illinois, represents an interesting example of the Chicago school architecture?
  

• The main terminal of Glasgow International Airport is rammed by a burning car one day after two unexploded car bombs are discovered in central London.
• Egyptologist Zahi Hawass identifies a mummy found in an unadorned tomb as that of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut (pictured).
• Gordon Brown succeeds Tony Blair as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Blair assumes the post of Envoy for the Quartet on the Middle East.
• The leaders of the 27 European Union states agree to an outline for a Reform Treaty to replace the failed European Constitution.
• "Chemical" Ali Hassan al-Majid, cousin of Saddam Hussein, is sentenced to death along with two other defendants for his role in the Al-Anfal Campaign against the Iraqi Kurds.
• The Special Court for Sierra Leone issues the first-ever guilty verdicts by an international court on charges related to the military use of children, convicting three members of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council for war crimes during the country's civil war.

July 2:

• 1644 - The Battle of Marston Moor, one of the decisive encounters of the English Civil War, was fought near York.
• 1839 - 53 African slaves mutinied on the slave ship La Amistad off the coast of Cuba.
• 1900 - First Zeppelin flight (pictured) occurred over Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
• 1937 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight.
• 1976 - North and South Vietnam united under communist rule to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
• 1997 - The Thai baht rapidly lost half of its value, marking the beginning of the 1997 East Asian financial crisis.

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