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📅 Historical Event on 05th of July:
🔸 In 1934:
"Bloody Thursday": The police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
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📅 Historical Event on 04th of July:
🔸 In 1333:
Genkō War: Forces loyal to Emperor Go-Daigo seize Tōshō-ji during the Siege of Kamakura. Hōjō Takatoki and other members of the Hōjō clan commit suicide, ending the rule of the Kamakura shogunate.
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📅 Historical Event on 04th of July:
🔸 In 1960:
Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Acts (United States)).

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"Every student can learn. Just not on the same day, or the same way."
— Salman Khan

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📅 Historical Event on 04th of July:
🔸 In 1976:
Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
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📅 Historical Event on 03th of July:
🔸 In 1839:
The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State University, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with three students.
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📅 Historical Event on 03th of July:
🔸 In 1767:
Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published.
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📅 Historical Event on 03th of July:
🔸 In 1952:
The Constitution of Puerto Rico is approved by the United States Congress.
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📅 Historical Event on 02th of July:
🔸 In 2024:
A stampede during a religious event in Uttar Pradesh, India, leaves at least 121 people dead and 150 others injured.
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📅 Historical Event on 02th of July:
🔸 In 2013:
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Aceh, Indonesia, killing at least 42 people and injuring 420 others.
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"The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge."
— Seymour Papert

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📅 Historical Event on 02th of July:
🔸 In 1917:
In the leadup to the Battle of Aqaba, T. E. Lawrence and his Arab forces defeat a battalion of Ottomans at Abu al-Lissan.
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📅 Historical Event on 01th of July:
🔸 In 2002:
The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression.
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"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect."
— Tim Berners-Lee

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📅 Historical Event on 01th of July:
🔸 In 1770:
Lexell's Comet is seen closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 astronomical units (2,180,000 km; 1,360,000 mi).
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📅 Historical Event on 01th of July:
🔸 In 1958:
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
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"The old computing is about what computers can do; the new computing is about what people can do."
— Ben Shneiderman

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📅 Historical Event on 30th of June:
🔸 In 1936:
Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion of his country.
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