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• ... that when American General Horace H. Fuller (pictured) asked to be relieved in 1944, he became the only division commander to be relieved in the Western New Guinea campaign in World War II?
• ... that St. Maria ad Gradus, a former church in Cologne, was the burial site of Richeza of Lotharingia in 1063?
• ... that after basketball coaches exploited the possession arrow rule, the University Athletic Association of the Philippines amended the rules for the 2008 season?
• ... that, in spite of lobbying from New Hampshire residents, the episodes of The West Wing "Manchester Part I and Part II" were eventually filmed in Bluemont, Virginia?
• ... that senior GDR diplomat Gottfried Lessing had taken part in the founding and been a leading member of the illegal clandestine Communist Party in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) during the 1940s?
• ... that the inverted floral arrangement of Lacandonia schismatica, where the stamens are in the flower's center and are surrounded by the pistils, is unique among all known flowering plants?
• ... that R. Thomas Flynn, retired president of Monroe Community College, won an athletic scholarship to Bradley University that he later lost due to injury?
  

• Weekend cross-strait charter flights (pictured) between Taiwan and Mainland China resume after 59 years.
• NASA announces the discovery of water in the atmosphere of Mercury by its MESSENGER probe.
• 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.

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• 1687 – Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton (pictured) was first published, describing his laws of motion and his law of universal gravitation.
• 1946 – Named after Bikini Atoll, the site of the nuclear weapons test Operation Crossroads in the Marshall Islands, the modern bikini was introduced at a fashion show in Paris.
• 1950 – The Israeli Knesset enacted the Law of Return, granting Jews around the world the right to migrate to and settle in Israel and gain citizenship.
• 1977 – General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq overthrew Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan in a military coup d'état.
• 2004 – Indonesia held its first direct presidential elections in its history; Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono would later be elected president during the second round of the elections on September 20.

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