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1988 Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hr, 4 min) 
1990 5 Bank of Credit and Commerce members are discovered guilty of money
1990 Ian Gow, British Conservative parliament leader, murdered.
1991 MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993
1991 Leonardus S van Egerat, travel expert, dies at 68
1992 Brenda Marshall, actress (Highway West, Smiling Ghost), dies at 76.
1993 Edward B A M Raczynski, Polish pres-in-exile (1979-86), dies at 97.
1994 Enid Balint-Edmonds, British psychoanalyst, dies at 90
1995 Biggie Rodwell Tembo Marasha, musician, dies at 36
1996 Alan Cheales, dominican priest, dies at 83
2007 New British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visits U.S. President George W. Bush for the inaugural time as Prime Minister
2012 Train fire results in the deaths of 32 and injures 27 people in Andhra Pradesh, India.
2012 In the worst power outage in world history, the 2012 India blackouts leave 620 million people without power.
2013 28 people are killed in a series of bombings in Kano, Nigeria.
2014 Death toll in Gaza reaches 1346, while 56 Israeli soldiers and 3 civilians have been killed
2017 China's President Xi Jinping heads 12000 troop parade at Zhurihe training base, Inner Mongolia marking 90 years since founding of the People's Liberation Army
2017 Russian President Vladimir Putin announces American diplomats in Russia cut by 755 in response to American sanctions
2017 Venezuelan voting for a new assembly disrupted by violent protests, at least 3 people killed
2017 1st centenary of WWI Battle of Passchendaele marked at ceremony at Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium
2017 15 people killed in gunfights with Philippine police, including Reynaldo Parojinog, mayor of Ozamiz in an anti-drug trafficking operation
2017 Hackers reveal they have stolen data from HBO, including episodes and scripts of Games of Thrones
2018 Official Malaysian investigation into the disappearance of Flight 370 is unable to determine what happened.
2018 British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt mistakenly calls his Chinese-born wife "Japanese" in meeting with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing.
2018 Four million people excluded from Assam National Register of Citizens in India prompts fears of deportation, loss of citizenship
2018 Australian Catholic Archbishop Philip Wilson steps down after being convicted of concealing sexual abuse
2019 India bans triple talaq
2020 NASA successfully launches its Mars 2020 rover mission to search for signs of ancient life and collect samples for return to Earth. The mission includes technology demonstrations to prepare for future human missions.
2023 Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky warns war is coming back to Russia after a drones attack on Moscow [1]
2023 In this year, 63 people are killed and over 200 are injured after a suicide bombing occurs in Khar, Pakistan; the Islamic State – Khorasan Province claims responsibility for the attack.August 1 - Global warming: The world's oceans reach a new record high temperature of 20.96 °C (69.73 °F), exceeding the previous record in 2016. July is also the hottest month on record for globally averaged surface air temperatures by a considerable margin (0.3 °C (32.5 °F))
2024 Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh is assassinated in Iran's capital Tehran
2024 At least 334 people are killed, over 200 injured and 281 missing following landslides in Wayanad district, Kerala, India
2024 Israel carries out an airstrike in the Dahieh suburb of Beirut, killing Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr, who it accused of ordering the Majdal Shams attack
2024 United Kingdom riots: Far-right riots break out throughout the United Kingdom in response to a mass stabbing in Southport, England.
2025 PostNord, the Danish postal service, formally ends letter deliveries entirely, shifting exclusively to packages; the government agency was established in 1624 [1]
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