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1904 - Paul Kruger, South African politician, died in exile in Switzerland. He led the Transvaal during the 1899-1902 Boer War against Britain, which was seeking to extend its commercial interests after the discovery of gold.
1933 - The Nazi Party under Adolf Hitler banned all opposition parties in Germany.
1935 - Bastille Day in Paris.
1965 - Adlai Stevenson, twice Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency who lost to Dwight Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956, died in London.
1998 - Richard McDonald, who pioneered the fast-food concept that evolved into McDonald's, the world's largest restaurant chain, died. He was 89.
1999 - Peru captured Oscar Ramirez, alias Feliciano, the leader of the Shining Path rebel group.
2003 - Compay Segundo, the veteran Cuban singer and guitarist who shot from oblivion to international fame at the sunset of his life with the Grammy-winning record "Buena Vista Social Club," died. He was 95.
2005 - U.S. scientists announced that they had detected a planet outside our solar system with not one, but three suns, a finding that challenged astronomers' theories of planet formation.
2006 - Jaroslaw Kaczynski was sworn in as Poland's prime minister by his twin brother, President Lech Kaczynski.
2006 - Israeli jets fire at Lebanon's Zahrani bridge.
2012 - Oregon pair attempt to break world record for longest two-man cluster balloon flight.
