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From Wikipedia's newest articles:

• ... that areas around Mangochi (Lake Malawi pictured), Malawi, have recently been terrorised by elephants?
• ... that the Rev. William Plenderleath's book Memoranda of Cherhill was first published 95 years after the author's death?
• ... that attacks by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, led by Nigerian rebel Henry Okah, are believed to indirectly raise the price of oil?
• ... that British actor Terence Stamp's brother Chris, a New York City psychodrama therapist, co-managed and produced rock band The Who from 1964 to 1975?
• ... that after a painted garage door was destroyed, the Precita Eyes muralists salvaged it and merged it into a new one, said to be one of their most beautiful in San Francisco?
• ... that a picture of Cincinnati Reds pitcher Lee Grissom rowing a boat inside Crosley Field ran nationwide after the worst flood in the city's history?
• ... that Benjamin Ferguson bequeathed a fund to Chicago, Illinois that provided for seventeen of the city's most prominent sculptures?
  

• India's United Progressive Alliance-led government (Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pictured) survives a confidence vote, held after the Left Front withdrew its support over the Indo-US nuclear deal.
• Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić is arrested by security forces in Serbia on war crimes charges, including genocide, after a 12-year manhunt.
• Hurricane Dolly, currently in Texas, kills at least 17 in Guatemala.
• Zimbabwe introduces a new 100-billion-dollar bank note as the annual inflation rate hits 2.2 million percent.
• Ram Baran Yadav of the Nepali Congress party wins Nepal's presidential election, defeating Ram Raja Prasad Singh of the Communist Party (Maoist).

July 24: Pioneer Day in Utah; Simón Bolívar Day in Ecuador and Venezuela

• 1148 – Second Crusade: The Crusaders began the Siege of Damascus, but were decisively defeated by the Saracens a few days later.
• 1847 – After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young led the first group of Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley of Utah, at the time a part of Mexico.
• 1911 – In the Peruvian Andes, American explorer Hiram Bingham re-discovered Machu Picchu (pictured), then thought to be the "Lost City of the Incas".
• 1923 – The Treaty of Lausanne was signed to settle the Anatolian part of the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire, establishing the boundaries of modern Turkey.
• 1943 – World War II: RAF Bomber Command began Operation Gomorrah, the strategic bombing of Hamburg, Germany, eventually killing at least 50,000 and left over a million others homeless.

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