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Widespread flooding
in China causes at least 50 deaths and the evacuation of more than 36,000 people.

Ten bombs are detonated at one of the holiest sites in Buddhism, the Mahabodhi Temple

complex (pictured) in India, injuring five people.

More than fifty supporters of deposed Egyptian President

clashes with the military in Cairo

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In tennis, men's singles at the Wimbledon Championships
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Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes while landing at San Francisco International Airport, killing two people.

A runaway fuel train
derails in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec
, killing at least twenty people and destroying at least thirty buildings in the town's core.
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On this day...

July 11: Day of the Flemish Community of Belgium; Naadam begins in Mongolia

Noongar warrior Yagan, wanted for leading attacks on white colonists in Western Australia, was killed, becoming a symbol of the unjust and sometimes brutal treatment of the indigenous peoples of Australia

by colonial settlers.

1921 – Former President of the United States William Howard Taft (pictured) was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, making him the only person to ever hold both positions.

1943 – In a massive ethnic cleansing operation, units of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army attacked various Polish villages in the Volhynia region of present-day Ukraine, killing the Polish civilians and burning those settlements to the ground.

1991 – Shortly after takeoff from King Abdulaziz International Airport, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 caught fire in mid-flight and crashed, killing all 261 occupants on board.

2011 – An explosion at the Evangelos Florakis Naval Base killed 12 people, including the head of the Cyprus Navy, making it the worst peacetime military accident in Cypriot history.

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The Church of St. John the Baptist in Harescombe, a small village in Gloucestershire, England. The church, consecrated in 1315, is a Grade II* listed building. It has an unusual bellcote and a small octagonal stone spire, and is home to the oldest bell in the county.

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