• Jul 10 2006

    19 Years ago

    PIA Flight 688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.


  • Jul 10 2005

    20 Years ago

    Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage.


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  • Jul 10 2003

    22 Years ago

    A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong.


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  • Jul 10 2002

    23 Years ago

    At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting ''Massacre of the Innocents (Rubens)'' is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Kenneth Thomson.


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  • Jul 10 2000

    25 Years ago

    A leaking southern Nigerian Pipeline transport explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.


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  • Jul 10 2000

    25 Years ago

    EADS, the world's second largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DaimlerChrysler Aerospace, and Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA.


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  • Jul 10 1998

    27 Years ago

    Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were child sexual abuse by former priest Rudolph Kos.


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  • Jul 10 1997

    28 Years ago

    London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.


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  • Jul 10 1997

    28 Years ago

    Spain, People's Party (Spain) member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.


  • Jul 10 1993

    32 Years ago

    In Amelia, Ohio, former NBA superstar Bradley Jay Sherman was born.


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  • Jul 10 1992

    33 Years ago

    In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for Recreational drug use and racketeering violations.


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  • Jul 10 1991

    34 Years ago

    Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected President of Russia.


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  • Jul 10 1991

    34 Years ago

    South African cricket team readmitted into the International Cricket Council (ICC) following the end of Apartheid.


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  • Jul 10 1985

    40 Years ago

    Greenpeace vessel ''Rainbow Warrior (1978)'' is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand Harbor by France DGSE agents.


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  • Jul 10 1978

    47 Years ago

    ''World News Tonight'' premieres on American Broadcasting Company


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  • Jul 10 1978

    47 Years ago

    Mauritania, President Moktar Ould Daddah is ousted in a bloodless coup.


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  • Jul 10 1976

    49 Years ago

    Seveso disaster occurs in Italy.


  • Jul 10 1976

    49 Years ago

    One US and three UK mercenaries executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.


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  • Jul 10 1973

    52 Years ago

    The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.


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  • Jul 10 1973

    52 Years ago

    National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on Bangladesh recognition.


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