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1. 1st August 1944: Warsaw Uprising begins in German-occupied Poland during the Second World War

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2. 31st July 1790: The first U.S. patent was awarded to Samuel Hopkins

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3. 30th July 1916: German agents trigger a major explosion at the Black Tom munitions depot in New Jersey to stop supplies to the Allies

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4. 29th July 1976: David Berkowitz, known as the Son of Sam, committed his first known murder in the Bronx, New York City

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5. 28th July 1939: Ornate Anglo-Saxon helmet uncovered at the Sutton Hoo burial site in Suffolk, England

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6. 27th July 1942: Allied forces in North Africa stop the advancing Axis powers in the First Battle of El Alamein

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7. 26th July 1945: Britain, the USA, and China issue the Potsdam Declaration demanding the unconditional surrender of Japan

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8. 25th July 1965: American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival

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9. 24th July 1847: Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley to begin the foundation of Salt Lake City, Utah

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10. 23rd July 1914: Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia specifically designed to be rejected and lead to war between the two countries

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11. 22nd July 1793: Alexander Mackenzie becomes the first recorded person to cross North America north of Mexico

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12. 21st July 1861: First Battle of Bull Run, the first major battle of the American Civil War, takes place in Virginia

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13. 20th July 1807: The world’s first internal combustion engine is patented in France

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14. 19th July 1545: The Mary Rose, a Tudor warship of the English navy, sinks in the Solent in full view of King Henry VIII

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15. 18th July 1938: ‘Wrong Way’ Douglas Corrigan lands in Ireland from New York, despite filing a flight plan to Long Beach, California

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16. 17th July 1918: Russian Imperial Romanov family shot dead by Bolsheviks in the basement of the Ipatiev House in the city of Ekaterinburg

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17. 16th July 622: Start date of the Islamic calendar

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18. 15th July 1099: First Crusade ends when Crusader forces capture the city of Jerusalem, after a siege lasting several weeks

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19. 14th July 1881: American outlaw Billy the Kid shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett

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20. 13th July 1985: The Live Aid ‘global jukebox’ concert broadcast to an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion people

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