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• ... that St. Kazimierz Church in Warsaw (pictured) was designed by the leading Dutch architect Tylman van Gameren?
• ... that Agile Mangabeys are known to contract the T-cell leukemia virus, similar to the leukemia virus that infects humans?
• ... that when VOC forces led by Steven van der Hagen captured a Portuguese fort on Ambon in 1605, it was the first territory captured by the Dutch Republic in the East Indies?
• ... that the Young Romance comic book series, first published in 1947, is regarded as the first romance comic?
• ... that HMT Bedfordshire was one of 24 Royal Navy anti-submarine vessels sent to assist the United States after its entry into World War II?
• ... that Alex Perelson is the youngest professional skaterboarder in the vert field?
• ... that the relics housed within the chapel near the Church of St. Mary of Blachernae in Istanbul were credited by the Byzantines for victories against the Avars, Arabs, and Rus?
• ... that in 1837 Nathaniel Parker Willis won $1,000 from Josephine Clifton by writing Bianca Visconti for her to perform?
  

• Belgian brewer InBev agrees to buy St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch for over 50 billion dollars, in what would surpass SABMiller as the world's largest brewing company.
• The International Astronomical Union classifies Makemake as a dwarf planet.
• Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela is crowned Miss Universe 2008.
• European Union members and other nations bordering the Mediterranean Sea form the 43-member Union for the Mediterranean (member map pictured).
• Mount Okmok on the island of Umnak in the Aleutian Islands erupts.
• Wildfires burn over 800,000 acres in California, surpassing the toll of the 2003 fire season.
• IndyMac Bank is placed into conservatorship by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in one of the largest banking failures in United States history.

July 15: Festino of Saint Rosalia in Palermo, Italy

• 1240 – Swedish-Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeated the Swedes on the Neva River near Ust-Izhora, present-day Russia.
• 1685 – James Scott, Duke of Monmouth (pictured), was executed for his role in the Monmouth Rebellion, an attempt to overthrow King James II of England.
• 1823 – A fire, accidentally started by a workman who was repairing the lead of the roof, destroyed the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome. The church would later be restored by 1840.
• 1974 – Greek-sponsored nationalists overthrew Makarios III, President of Cyprus, in a coup d'état and replaced him with Nikos Sampson.
• 2003 – The non-profit Mozilla Foundation was founded to ensure the open source Mozilla project would survive after AOL Time Warner disbanded Netscape Communications.

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