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• ... that the origin and significance of the picture stone known as the snake-witch (pictured) remain a mystery?
• ... that Valri Bromfield performed stand-up comedy on the first episode of Saturday Night Live?
• ... that the flesh of the poisonous mushroom Boletus legaliae smells of chicory?
• ... that the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Office Building in Louisville, Kentucky is one of the largest commercial Beaux Arts buildings still in existence?
• ... that the identity of the language or dialect of the Cançó de Santa Fe, a hagiographical poem about Saint Faith, has been debated since the 16th century?
• ... that the "Australian Legends" in 2000, Walter Parker and Roy Longmore were among the last living veterans of the ANZAC who had served in World War I?
• ... that primitive weevils of the Aglycyderini, Metrioxenini and Oxycorynini tribes are believed to have evolved in the Late Cretaceous or perhaps Paleocene period, some 100-60 million years ago?
• ... that Steve Adkins, on the day of his Major League debut, walked five consecutive batters, two short of the all time record of seven?
  

• Weekend cross-strait charter flights (pictured) between Taiwan and Mainland China resume after 59 years.
• Íngrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages are rescued by the Colombian government after being held captive by FARC guerillas.
• A Palestinian man drives a front-end loader into several vehicles in Jerusalem, killing three before being shot dead.
• A four-day state of emergency is declared in Mongolia after violent protests follow the legislative elections.
• Thousands of Chinese riot in Guizhou, targeting local government buildings and officials over an alleged police cover-up of the death of a teenage girl.
• Robert Mugabe is sworn in for his sixth term as President of Zimbabwe after a controversial run-off presidential election in which opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew his candidacy due to election-related violence.

July 4: Aphelion (08:00 UTC, 2008); Independence Day in the United States; Filipino-American Friendship Day in the Philippines

• 993 – Pope John XV became the first pope to canonize a saint, Ulrich of Augsburg.
• 1776 – The Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies in British North America adopted a Declaration of Independence, considered to be the founding document of the United States.
• 1865 – Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (illustration of Alice pictured) was first published, based on a story he first told Alice Liddell and her sisters exactly three years earlier in a rowing boat travelling on the River Thames from Oxford to Godstow.
• 1941 – German AB-Aktion operation in Poland: After capturing Lwów, the Nazis executed approximately 45 professors of the University of Lwów.
• 1976 – Israel Defense Forces raided Uganda's Entebbe International Airport to free hostages taken by hijackers.

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