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• ... that the Michigan-Wacker Historic District (pictured) hosts Chicago's first permanent residence, Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite?
• ... that the Nicaraguan Rice Rat is one of only two mammals endemic to Nicaragua?
• ... that Grand Duchess Anna freed her husband Vytautas the Great of Lithuania from a prison in Kreva by dressing him in women's clothes?
• ... that the Montreux Convention of 1936 is an international treaty regulating the Dardanelles and Bosporus Straits?
• ... that Anita West, one of the presenters of Blue Peter, was on the show for such a short period that no footage of her exists in the BBC archives?
• ... that famous Benjamin Franklin impersonator Ralph Archbold is married to a woman who impersonates Betsy Ross?
• ... that the International Checker Hall of Fame in Petal, Mississippi was home to the world's largest checkerboard?
• ... that the first fire department in Indianapolis was established seventeen months after the first fire in the city?
  

• Leaders of the nations meeting in Japan for the 34th G8 summit (pictured) agree to a target of cutting world greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50 percent by 2050.
• A suicide bomber rams a car bomb into the Indian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing 41 people.
• An explosion near the Lal Masjid in Islamabad, Pakistan, kills at least 18 people on the first anniversary of the deadly siege and storming of the mosque.
• In tennis, Rafael Nadal of Spain and Venus Williams of the United States win the men's and women's singles title, respectively, at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships.
• Clashes are reported between Georgian and South Ossetian forces near Tskhinvali.

July 9: Independence Day in Argentina (1816)

• 1789 – French Revolution: The National Constituent Assembly was formed from the National Assembly, and began to function as a governing body and a drafter for a new constitution.
• 1868 – The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, including the Citizenship Clause, the Equal Protection Clause and the Privileges or Immunities Clause among others, was ratified by the minimum required twenty-eight U.S. states.
• 1955 – The Russell-Einstein Manifesto, signed by Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell (pictured) and nine other preeminent intellectuals and scientists, was issued during a press conference in London in the midst of the Cold War, calling for a conference where scientists would assess the dangers posed to the survival of humanity by weapons of mass destruction.
• 1986 – The Parliament of New Zealand passed the Homosexual Law Reform Act, legalising consensual homosexual sex.
• 2002 – The African Union was formed as a successor to the amalgamated African Economic Community and the Organization of African Unity, with President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki as its first chairman.

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