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• ... that the superstructure of the Ship John Shoal Light (pictured) was exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876, while inhabited by a lighthouse keeper?
• ... that the biopsychosocial model was theorized by George L. Engel at the University of Rochester Medical Center and putatively discussed in a 1977 article in the journal Science?
• ... that The Legend of Chu Liu Xiang received the third-highest viewership of all television series broadcast in 2007 on CCTV-8, even though it was released in December of that year?
• ... that Admiral Herbert Sawyer had a son named Herbert Sawyer, who not only also became an admiral, but was even given his father's old command, the North American Station?
• ... that the four brothers in Christian rock band Remedy Drive were performing over 200 concerts a year before signing onto a record label?
• ... that Hibernian Park hosted the first football international match played in Edinburgh, Scotland?
• ... that the day after Nazi Germany declared war on the U.S., Adolf Hitler announced the extermination of the Jewish race to party leaders in a private meeting in the Reich Chancellery?
  

• Clashes are reported between Georgian and South Ossetian forces near Tskhinvali.
• Weekend cross-strait charter flights between Taiwan and Mainland China resume after 59 years.
• A series of explosions (smoke cloud pictured) at a depot storing 1,500 tonnes of obsolete munitions forces the evacuation of some 2,000 people in Sofia and the closure of the Bulgarian capital's main airport.
• NASA announces the discovery of water in the atmosphere of Mercury by its MESSENGER probe.
• 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.

July 6: Independence Day in Malawi (1964) and in Comoros (1975); Statehood Day in Lithuania (1253); Jan Hus Day in the Czech Republic; the festival of San Fermín begins in Pamplona, Spain

• 1415 – The Council of Constance executed Jan Hus (pictured), founder of the Christian Hussite reform movement, for committing heresy.
• 1809 – Napoleon's French forces defeated Archduke Charles' Austrian army at the Battle of Wagram, the decisive confrontation of the War of the Fifth Coalition.
• 1887 – King Kalākaua of Hawai'i was forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution, stripping the Hawaiian monarchy of much of its authority as well as disfranchising all Asians, most native Hawaiians, and the poor.
• 1966 – Hastings Banda became the first president of Malawi, exactly two years after the country was granted independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1998 – Hong Kong International Airport, built on the island of Chek Lap Kok by land reclamation, opened for commercial operations, becoming one of the world's busiest airports.

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