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• ... that Puerto Rican businessman Fermín Tangüis developed the Tanguis cotton in Peru and was given the Order of the Sun medal (pictured)?
• ... that Massera's lemma, a result in stability theory and nonlinear control, can be used to construct common Lyapunov functions for switched systems?
• ... that after John Huston filmed a scene from Moby Dick in front of the Seamen's Bethel in New Bedford, Massachusetts, the increase in tourism spurred the creation of the New Bedford Historic District?
• ... that Wanda Hjort Heger showed up uninvited every week at the gate of Sachsenhausen during WWII with two jars of potato salad for the Norwegian prisoners?
• ... that an adrenergic storm can be caused by a cocaine overdose, use of the MAOI class of antidepressants, or a subarachnoid hemorrhage?
• ... that Maya Angelou wrote one of her characters in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to demonstrate how she survived her childhood as a black in a white-dominated world?
• ... that 25 percent of the population of Ecuador is of indigenous heritage, while another 65 percent is of mixed indigenous and European heritage?
• ... that part of the 1975 comedy film Linda Lovelace for President was shot on the campus of the University of Kansas?
  

• Over a thousand soldiers from Cambodia and Thailand mass near Preah Vihear Temple, the focus of a military standoff over a disputed border.
• Typhoon Kalmaegi (pictured) strikes the Philippines, Taiwan, and China, killing at least fifteen.
• The Sri Lankan military captures a coastal town in Sri Lanka's Mannar District from rebel Tamil Tigers.
• Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is arrested over allegations that he sodomised a male aide.
• The Taliban attack an outpost in Afghanistan, killing nine ISAF soldiers.
• The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, requests a warrant for the arrest of Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir in connection to the conflict in Darfur.
• Belgian brewer InBev agrees to buy US-based Anheuser-Busch for over 50 billion dollars.

July 20: Seventeenth of Tammuz (Judaism, 2008); Friends' Day in Argentina and other Latin American countries; Independence Day in Colombia

• 1656 – Led by King Charles X Gustav, the armies of Sweden and Brandenburg defeated the forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth near Warsaw.
• 1866 – Third Italian War of Independence: The Austrian Navy led by Wilhelm von Tegetthoff defeated a much larger Italian fleet at the Battle of Lissa on the Adriatic Sea near present-day Vis, Croatia.
• 1927 – Five-year-old Michael I became King of Romania upon the death of his father Ferdinand I.
• 1951 – Abdullah I of Jordan was assassinated by a Palestinian from the Husseini clan while visiting Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
• 1969 – The Apollo 11 lunar module landed on the Sea of Tranquillity, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin (pictured) would become the first men to walk on the moon six-and-a-half hours later.

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