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Today in History
 
July 11
The World Aids Conference in South Africa has announced trials for a new HIV vaccine will begin in Britain.
 
July 8
The latest story about boy wizard Harry Potter has broken all publishing records.
 
July 7
At least 19 people have been killed in riots in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, following the death of the opposition leader.
 
July 6
Nasa scientists have freed a robot from the space probe, Mars Pathfinder, allowing it to begin its exploration of the Red Planet at last.
 
July 5
The Bank of England has closed down UK branches of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) over allegations of fraud.
 
July 4
Israeli commandos have rescued 100 hostages, mostly Israelis or Jews, held by pro-Palestinian hijackers at Entebbe airport in Uganda.
 
July 1
Hong Kong has been handed back to the Chinese authorities-ending more than 50 years of British control.
 
July 30
England have won football's World Cup for the first time since the tournament began in 1930.
 
July 29
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.
 
July 28
Hundreds of thousands of people are feared dead following an earthquake measuring 8.3 on the Richter Scale in China.
 
July 27
A bomb has exploded at a crowded concert in Atlanta, Georgia, the city hosting this year's Olympic Games.
 
July 26
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.
 
July 31
The United States and the Soviet Union have signed an historic agreement reducing their stockpiles of nuclear warheads by about a third.
 
July 24
The United States Supreme Court has ordered President Nixon to surrender tape recordings of White House conversations about the Watergate affair.
 
July 23
Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson have married at Westminster Abbey.
 
July 22
The US space laboratory, Skylab I, plunged to Earth this evening scattering debris across the southern Indian Ocean and sparsely populated Western Australia.
 
July 21
American Neil Armstrong has become the first man to walk on the Moon.
 
July 20
Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike, widow of Ceylon's assassinated prime minister Solomon Bandaranaike, has been elected the world's first woman prime minister.
 
July 17
The opening ceremony of the 21st Olympic Games in Montreal has been marred by the withdrawal of 25 African countries.
 
July 16
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.
 
July 15
Thousands of Muslim refugees are fleeing the captured "safe area" of Srebrenica forced out by the Bosnian Serbs.
 
July 14
Diana, Princess of Wales,has given birth to a boy sixteen hours after checking in to St Mary's Hospital,in London.
 
July 13
Officials in Manchester bidding to hold the 2000 Olympic Games have been told their chances are "very, very high".
 
July 10
The German Air Force, the Luftwaffe, has mounted a series of attacks on shipping convoys off the south-east coast of England.
 
July 9
A Californian University has thrown more light on why the Big Bang works after nearly 40 years of world-wide research.
 
July 3
The former Gestapo chief, Klaus Barbie, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity.
 
July 2
The Civil Rights Bill - one of the most important piece of legislation in American history - has become law.
 
July 25
The birth of the world's first "test tube baby" has been announced in Manchester.
 
July 19
A huge new dinosaur skeleton has been unveiled to the media at the Natural History Museum in London.
 
July 18
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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