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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 4: Aphelion (08:00 UTC, 2008); Independence Day in the United States; Filipino-American Friendship Day in the Philippines

• 993 – Pope John XV became the first pope to canonize a saint, Ulrich of Augsburg.
• 1776 – The Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies in British North America adopted a Declaration of Independence, considered to be the founding document of the United States.
• 1865 – Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (illustration of Alice pictured) was first published, based on a story he first told Alice Liddell and her sisters exactly three years earlier in a rowing boat travelling on the River Thames from Oxford to Godstow.
• 1941 – German AB-Aktion operation in Poland: After capturing Lwów, the Nazis executed approximately 45 professors of the University of Lwów.
• 1976 – Israel Defense Forces raided Uganda's Entebbe International Airport to free hostages taken by hijackers.

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