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July 11 |
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The World Aids Conference in South Africa has announced trials for a new HIV vaccine will begin in Britain. |
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July 8 |
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The latest story about boy wizard Harry Potter has broken all publishing records. |
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July 7 |
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At least 19 people have been killed in riots in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, following the death of the opposition leader. |
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July 6 |
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Nasa scientists have freed a robot from the space probe, Mars Pathfinder, allowing it to begin its exploration of the Red Planet at last. |
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July 5 |
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The Bank of England has closed down UK branches of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) over allegations of fraud. |
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July 4 |
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Israeli commandos have rescued 100 hostages, mostly Israelis or Jews, held by pro-Palestinian hijackers at Entebbe airport in Uganda. |
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July 1 |
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Hong Kong has been handed back to the Chinese authorities-ending more than 50 years of British control. |
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July 30 |
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England have won football's World Cup for the first time since the tournament began in 1930. |
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July 29 |
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Crowds of 600,000 people filled the streets of London to catch a glimpse of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer on their wedding day. |
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July 28 |
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Hundreds of thousands of people are feared dead following an earthquake measuring 8.3 on the Richter Scale in China. |
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July 27 |
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A bomb has exploded at a crowded concert in Atlanta, Georgia, the city hosting this year's Olympic Games. |
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July 26 |
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Egypt's president, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, has announced the nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company to provide funding for the construction of the Aswan High Dam. |
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July 31 |
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The United States and the Soviet Union have signed an historic agreement reducing their stockpiles of nuclear warheads by about a third. |
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July 24 |
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The United States Supreme Court has ordered President Nixon to surrender tape recordings of White House conversations about the Watergate affair. |
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July 23 |
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Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson have married at Westminster Abbey. |
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July 22 |
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The US space laboratory, Skylab I, plunged to Earth this evening scattering debris across the southern Indian Ocean and sparsely populated Western Australia. |
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July 21 |
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American Neil Armstrong has become the first man to walk on the Moon. |
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July 20 |
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Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike, widow of Ceylon's assassinated prime minister Solomon Bandaranaike, has been elected the world's first woman prime minister. |
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July 17 |
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The opening ceremony of the 21st Olympic Games in Montreal has been marred by the withdrawal of 25 African countries. |
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July 16 |
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The Apollo 11 space rocket has taken off successfully from Cape Kennedy, Florida, at the start of the first attempt to land a man on the Moon. |
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July 15 |
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Thousands of Muslim refugees are fleeing the captured "safe area" of Srebrenica forced out by the Bosnian Serbs. |
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July 14 |
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Diana, Princess of Wales,has given birth to a boy sixteen hours after checking in to St Mary's Hospital,in London. |
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July 13 |
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Officials in Manchester bidding to hold the 2000 Olympic Games have been told their chances are "very, very high". |
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July 10 |
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The German Air Force, the Luftwaffe, has mounted a series of attacks on shipping convoys off the south-east coast of England. |
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July 9 |
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A Californian University has thrown more light on why the Big Bang works after nearly 40 years of world-wide research. |
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July 3 |
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The former Gestapo chief, Klaus Barbie, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity. |
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July 2 |
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The Civil Rights Bill - one of the most important piece of legislation in American history - has become law. |
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July 25 |
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The birth of the world's first "test tube baby" has been announced in Manchester. |
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July 19 |
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A huge new dinosaur skeleton has been unveiled to the media at the Natural History Museum in London. |
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July 18 |
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A body believed to be that of government scientist Dr David Kelly has been found in woodland not far from his Oxfordshire home. |
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