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• ... that the Kumarakottam Temple (pictured) is one of the 21 major temples in Kanchipuram and an important pilgrimage centre?
• ... that Sybil Campbell, who was appointed a stipendiary magistrate in 1945, was the first woman to become a professional judge in the United Kingdom?
• ... that the venom of the Darling Downs funnel-web spider becomes more toxic in the early summer when male spiders are roaming looking for a mate?
• ... that the smoking tobacco brand Bigger Hair was originally named Nigger Hair?
• ... that American aid workers Heather Mercer and Dayna Curry's memoir, Prisoners of Hope, recounts them killing 150 flies a day during their 2001 imprisonment by the Taliban?
• ... that North Radworthy and South Radworthy were valued at £3?

• Tamu Massif, the largest volcano on Earth and one of the largest in the Solar System, is discovered in the Pacific Ocean.
• The Library of Birmingham (pictured), the largest municipal public library in the United Kingdom, opens.
• shark cage
  .
• Verizon Wireless
  for US$130 billion, the third-largest corporate deal ever.
• A
  newly discovered canyon under the Greenland
  ice sheet is found to be the world's longest.

September 7: Independence Day in Brazil (1822)

• Arsuf
  , present-day Israel.
• 1778 – American Revolutionary War: France invaded (pictured) the island of Dominica and captured the British fort there before the latter even knew that France had entered the war as an ally of the United States.
• unequal treaty ending the Boxer Rebellion
  .
• 1999 – Three weeks after an earthquake struck northwestern Turkey, a major earthquake struck Athens, causing Greece and Turkey to initiate "earthquake diplomacy".
• Yak-Service Flight 9633, carrying the players and coaching staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, crashed near the Russian city of Yaroslavl
  , killing all aboard but one.

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