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• ... that an art historian claimed The Fortune Teller (pictured), an oil painting by Georges de La Tour, is actually a forgery?
• ... that Riverside Drive Historic District in Covington, Kentucky marks where the first white settlers in the Cincinnati area lived?
• ... that Yukiko Iwai, at 4' 11'' (150 cm), was the shortest member of the 1980s all-girl Japanese pop group Onyanko Club?
• ... that the killing of filmmaker Hugh O'Connor in 1967 came to represent the conflict between outsiders and locals in Appalachia during the War on Poverty?
• ... that the blue-green toadstool Stropharia aeruginosa is named for its similarity in colour to verdigris?
• ... that circumstances of the 1977 death of Stanisław Pyjas, a Polish student and anti-communist activist, are still a mystery?
• ... that the Lafayette Afro Rock Band, although little known during their time, is now considered as one of the standout funk bands of the 1970s?
• ... that Vic Aldridge, nicknamed the "Hoosier Schoolmaster", had the worst seventh game start for a pitcher in World Series history?
  

• Weekend cross-strait charter flights (pictured) between Taiwan and Mainland China resume after 59 years.
• 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.
• A four-day state of emergency is declared in Mongolia after violent protests follow the legislative elections.
• Thousands of Chinese riot in Guizhou; targeting local government buildings and officials over an alleged police cover-up of the death of a teenage girl.

July 5: Independence Day in Venezuela (1811), Algeria (1962) and Cape Verde (1975); Saints Cyril and Methodius Day in the Czech Republic and Slovakia; Tynwald Day on the Isle of Man

• 1687 – Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton (pictured) was first published, describing his laws of motion and his law of universal gravitation.
• 1946 – Named after Bikini Atoll, the site of the nuclear weapons test Operation Crossroads in the Marshall Islands, the modern bikini was introduced at a fashion show in Paris.
• 1950 – The Israeli Knesset enacted the Law of Return, granting Jews around the world the right to migrate to and settle in Israel and gain citizenship.
• 1977 – General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq overthrew Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan in a military coup d'état.
• 2004 – Indonesia held its first direct presidential elections in its history; Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono would later be elected president during the second round of the elections on September 20.

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