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1988 US warship in the Gulf accidently shoots down Iranian airliner. 
1988 Gabriel Dell, actor (Dead End Kids), dies of leukemia at 68.
1989 Andrei Gromyko Soviet diplomat, dies just short of his 80th birthday.
1989 Jim Backus actor (Magoo, Gilligan's Island), dies at 76 of pneumonia.
1989 Peter Koech of Kenya sets 3k steeplechase rec (8 05.39) in Stockholm.
1989 Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions.
1989 The movie "Batman," set record of quickest $100 million (10 days)
1990 Ludi Claire Hugo, entertainer, dies at 70.
1991 Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7.45 karat diamond ring.
1991 Irina Nijinska, Russian/US dancer, dies at 77.
1992 Arline Bletcher, entertainer, dies of natural leads to at 99
1993 "Curly" Joe DeRita, last of Three Stooges, dies of pneumonia at 83.
1994 Felix Kelly, artist, dies at 80
1995 Albert Hardy, photographer, dies at 82
1996 Raaj Kumar, actor (Tiranga, Saudagar), dies at 68
2007 Torrential rains cause the onset of the 2007 Sudan floods, the worst in the Sudan's history.
2009 Mark II.5 Skytrain cars enter service in Metro Vancouver
2012 Truck bombing results in the deaths of 25 people and wounds 40 in Diwaniyah, Iraq
2013 Egypt's president, Mohammed Morsi, is deposed by the military with Adly Mansour appointed interim president
2014 Germany passes inaugural nation-wide minimum wage law – at 8.5 euros
2017 Bus crash in traffic jam and resulting fire results in the deaths of 18 near Muenchberg, Germany.
2017 French President Emmanuel Macron speech at Palace of Versailles proposes radical government changes, including reduction of MPs
2018 Australian cricket batsman Aaron Finch breaks his own T20 International record smashing 172 from 76 balls vs Zimbabwe in Harare, opening stand with D'Arcy Short (223) also a record
2018 Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is arrested on corruption charges, accused of stealing 700 million from state development fund 1MDB.
2018 Souad Abderrahim is elected the inaugural female mayor of Tunis, Tunisia
2018 Cardi B is recorded as becoming inaugural female rapper to get two number one US Billboard hits, with "I Like It" with Bad Bunny and J Balvin.
2018 US Justice and Education Departments rescind Obama affirmative action policies in college admissions
2018 Worst monsoon rains in decades swamp Lahore, Pakistan, killing 6.
2018 French President Emmanuel Macron visits the New Afrika Shrine nightclub in Lagos during his two-day tour of Nigeria
2019 Tajoura migrant center airstrike: An airstrike by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army hits the Tajoura Detention Center outside Tripoli, Libya, while hundreds of people are inside the facility, killing at least 53 of them and injures 130 others.
2021 Over 130 wildfires, fuelled by lightning strikes, burn through Western Canada following a record-breaking heatwave in North America that results in over 600 deaths.[140]
2023 In the largest incursion by Israel into the West Bank since the Second Intifada, the Israeli military deploys ground forces and armed drones into the Jenin camp, killing 13 and injuring more than 100. An attack claimed by Hamas as retaliation for the incursion, occurs in Tel Aviv the following day, injuring nine
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